Happy #Africa #Day
Let’s reflect on our vision for our continent, and how our individual actions can help build a movement of collective action as articulated by our Director Edgar Pieterse.

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#RISEAfrica | The #RISEAfrica 2024 Action festival kicks off tomorrow! With over 24 sessions, there's an option for everyone working towards sustainable urban African solutions. Check out the programme and register🔗: riseafrica.iclei.org/2024-programme

Join us next week:
“Bringing justice to our broken food systems: insights from the Food Equity Centre”
Perspectives from our work in livelihoods, food territories, healthy diets and hunger
Institute of Development Studies Food Security SA African Centre for Cities uwc.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

STUDY WITH THE ACC IN 2025

Did you know that we also offer two Masters programmes at the ACC? The MA in Sustainable Urban Practice and MPhil Southern Urbanism are geared at practitioners and scholars with an interest in the urbanisation trajectory in Africa and the global south

🗓️Today! Do not miss the dialogue on fostering #Commoning & #RightToTheCity : Enabling environments & partnerships

🗨️Social movements, CSO & #LRGs will gather to identify pathways for facilitating collaboration for #RightToHousing and #RightToLand

🔗 right2city.org/events/learnin…

Register for African Cities Research Consortium' upcoming webinar for insights on factors that shape land value and markets in Accra, Bukavu, Harare, Kampala, Maiduguri and Mogadishu.

Liza Rose Cirolia and Tom Goodfellow will chair the session.

Date: Monday 20 May 2024
Time: 13:00-14:30 BST /

EXHIBITION | Creative reflections on the daily life of cities

Join the ‘Urban Everyday’ students for an exhibition of their creative outputs on how they question and interpret the different themes covered in the course, which focuses on cities in the global South.

🗓️ Tues, 14

RISE AFRICA | 23 MAY - Join experts online from around the continent in discussing how to support innovation for more just and sustainable African cities at #RISEAfrica2024 ! Register via the link below or scan the QR code.

Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

ICYMI | Recentering housing webinar

ACC and Ndifuna Ukwazi will host a webinar series aimed at recentering the conversation on housing. The 1st webinar will focus on the historical context and intersectionalities of housing in SA. 09 May | 13H30| Register on Zoom:

Choose from a range of daily sessions at #RISEAfrica2024 ! From 22-24 May there's something for every schedule
🗣️Scene-setting morning discussion
🤓Diverse, twice-daily parallel sessions
✍️Lunchtime lectures
💭Interactive evening debrief

REGISTER now: riseafrica.iclei.org/2024-programme/

African Centre for Cities UNDP Urban Municipalities can be Engines of Urban Growth

INFRAHUB | The infrahub.africa database we created together with Urban Futures Studio recently passed the milestone of 30 infrastructure case studies! Explore the website or upload new case studies from across the continent #sustainablecities #sustainableinfrastructure

Happy Freedom Day, SA

On this day 30 years ago, South Africans from all walks of life took to the polls to elect the country’s first democratic government. The ACC joins millions of South Africans, and the world at large, in the celebration and commemoration of this historic day

Working on informality? Send an abstract to the 'New Frontiers of Urban Informality Research' workshop taking place in Sheffield from 12-13 September, organised by Martina Manara,
Alice Sverdlik
, and Graeme Young.

WEBINAR | Join Youth Capital in their upcoming webinar ahead of the #Elections2024 . ACC Director, Edgar Pieterse will open the discussion with a talk on spatial inequality in the context of unemployment. Register on the link below.