Based on research with 3 Nairobi-based start-ups Andrea Pollio, Liza Rose Cirolia&Jack Ong'iro Odeo illustrate how the process of ‘algorithmic suturing’ is used to knit loose ends of splintered urban networks viewing the last mile as a site of optimization tinyurl.com/53w699yn

In the new year, we should leave old baggage behind. But the specious argument in this article with its offensive title, “The world economy’s biggest problem is Africa” reminiscent of The Economist’s “the Hopeless Continent”, needs to be tackled 🧵 1/ ft.com/content/178bdc…

The Lobito Corridor: Washington’s Answer to Belt and Road in Africa geopoliticalmonitor.com/the-lobito-cor…

📢 CfP *Digital Territories* in Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) annual conference in London. I am co-organising this session with super colleagues @FennaImara Mariana Reyes as part of ERC_Regional Futures Please send us your abstracts by 23rd February 2024 #Digital #territory regionalfutures.org/all-outputs/rg…

📢 Calling all African researchers! The 2024/25 #AfOxVisitingFellowship at University of Oxford is open for applications. Develop new collaborations and grow your networks. 🌍 Open to all disciplines! Apply now! ow.ly/ssaa50QGGve #ResearchOpportunity

🙏🙏🙏In Kampala available at the Uganda Museum and at Mahiri Books - in their new shop at Endiro's, as well as online: mahiribooks.com/products/nasse…

This picture says a lot about Nairobi 🇰🇪

In our latest 'GDI in Conversation' video, we spoke with edwin rwigi, a PhD candidate currently conducting fieldwork in Nairobi. Edwin discusses his work with African Cities Research Consortium as well as his current research focus on urban informality. Watch the video in full here:

Now in Early View: EVERYDAY INFRASTRUCTURES OF URBAN LIFE by Prince K. Guma onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Nice to see that my paper on ‘everyday infrastructures of urban life’ is now in print at IJURR.org. I reiterate the need to reorient the foundational parameters of infrastructure… onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

Paper on ‘everyday infrastructures of urban life’ is now published at IJURR.org. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

It was a great pleasure to discuss Armelle Choplin’s Concrete City: Material Flows and Urbanization in West Africa on the Urban Political Podcast with Wangui Kimari and Alice Hertzog, warmly hosted by Nitin Bathla! Listen here: urbanpolitical.online/86-book-review…

On 15th April, 5:30pm CEST Beyond Inhabitation welcomes the distinguished Palestinian scholar Dr Mahmoud Hawari Mahmoud Hawari The talk is titled "Palestine: Settler Colonialism, Archeology, and the Appropriation of Cultural Heritage" To attend online 👉 polito-it.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

New paper out in our special issue — ‘Africa Under Construction: Critical Perspectives on Infrastructure and Labour’! I explore how informal work and governance shape Africa’s smart urban futures. #SmartCities #UrbanAfrica #Labour #Infrastructure tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Everyday infrastructures enable, mediate, and shape the architecture of urban living, sustaining routines of dwelling, inhabitation, and survival and forming the norm in daily rhythms for majority populations beyond linear temporalities of urban life. 📖 ijurr.org/article/everyd…

My paper, ‘Everyday Infrastructures of Urban Life’, now published in this latest issue of IJURR: ijurr.org/issue/vol-49-n…

Wrote on how our protests continue to be limited and co-opted by the saturation of infrastructure-led politics.. Pambazuka News Issue 899 pambazuka.org/Infrastructure…

Unbuilding | Society for Cultural Anthropology culanth.org/fieldsights/se…

My paper “Where Is the African Urbanist” is published in Urban Geography. I argue for the need to decenter and pluralize global urban thought tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…