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.
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.
Call for applications to attend an intimate three-day writing workshop on “How to write about platformisation from Africa”
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.
ACC is looking to appoint a full-time Project Coordinator for the AMALI Data Programme.
In this public talk, Dr Kim Gurney shares the innovative working principles that independent art spaces in fast-changing cities in Africa have in common as they navigate conditions of uncertainty and accelerated flux.
The African Centre for Cities (ACC) at the University of Cape Town invite applications for a full time Operations Manager for a two-year period.
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.
Andrew Tucker, African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town (South Africa),Shriya Anand, Indian Institute for Human Settlements (India), and Colin McFarlane, Durham University (United Kingdom), are curating a new seminar series entitled Intersections on the periphery: the Good City in a Time of Crisis, funded by the Urban Studies Foundation.
The African Centre for Cities is seeking to appoint Communications Officer for the African Mayoral Leadership Initiative (AMALI)
Calling all early-career academics, researchers, activists, and artists interested in urban theory in Africa! Apply now to be a part of the third UTA-Do African Cities Workshop in 2024, to be hosted in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (29 Jan to 2 Feb 2024).
As part of this project on Smartness as Wealth, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, the ACC is seeking to recruit a full-time PhD candidate who will undertake rigorous and critical work on fintech and inclusion in the context of Nairobi
The African Centre for Cities seeks to appoint a Strategic Communications Manager. The main purpose of the Strategic Communications Manager is to deliver strategic communications outcomes for the African Centre for Cities.
The African Centre for Cities (ACC) is seeking to appoint a Communications Officer. The main purpose of the Communications Officer is to in collaboration with the Communications Manager provide communication services to the ACC Team.
In April, 2023, the African Centre for Cities and the Economic Development Partnership (EDP) began a new collaboration. This partnership, building on a decade-long relationship between the two organisations, focuses on building knowledge from, with, and for urban practice.
