This article examines UCGs in low- income areas of Cape Town, South Africa, to understand how they might sell their harvests while countering the neoliberal food system in cities of the global South. The researcher draws on qualitative fieldwork, including observations and semi- structured interviews with UCG representatives and civil society actors.

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A new report titled ‘The Post-networked City: Reflecting on Heterogeneous Service Delivery in African Cities’ sheds light on the diverse pathways shaping urban infrastructure in places like Freetown and Kampala.

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The African Centre For Cities seeks to to appoint a Communications Manager.

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The African Centre for Cities, through Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) is calling for scholarship applications for 2025.DAAD are offering five In-Region Scholarships* for students from Sub-Saharan Africa who enrol for the MPhil Southern Urbanism (Masters in Urban Studies) programme at the University of Cape Town.

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Call for applications to attend an intimate three-day writing workshop on “How to write about platformisation from Africa”

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ACC invites applications from suitably qualified applicants to apply for this three-year Postdoctoral Research Fellowship as part of a project led by the Indian Institute of Human Settlements, called Spatialising Climate Impacts on Health: A Focus on Vulnerable Settlements in Megacities of the Global South.

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This article examines UCGs in low- income areas of Cape Town, South Africa, to understand how they might sell their harvests while countering the neoliberal food system in cities of the global South. The researcher draws on qualitative fieldwork, including observations and semi- structured interviews with UCG representatives and civil society actors.

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A new report titled ‘The Post-networked City: Reflecting on Heterogeneous Service Delivery in African Cities’ sheds light on the diverse pathways shaping urban infrastructure in places like Freetown and Kampala.

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Edited by Amrita Pande, Ruchi Chaturvedi and Shari Daya, Epistemic Justice and the Postcolonial University, addresses urgent current debates on decolonisation by offering reimagined teaching and learning interventions for obtaining greater epistemic justice in the contemporary postcolonial university.

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Reconstructing the Future: Cities as Carbon Sink, compiles the papers presented by world-renowned scientists, architects, spatial planners, activists, and policy makers at the Reconstructing the Future for People and Planet conference, held at the Vatican in June 2022.

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“Climate Infrastructure & City Governments: A Strategic Framework For African City-Labs”, provides a framework to support the development of ‘city-labs’ in African cities.

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This case report by Alicia Fortuin, as part of the Platform Politics and Silicon Savannah project, explores fintech and motorcycle platform services in Cape Town, South Africa. 

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