The African Mayoral Leadership Initiative (AMALI) unveiled its plans to catalyse the transformation of cities across the continent. The initiative will provide exclusive, tailored support to African city leaders, drawing on the insights and experience of a distinguished group of coaches including former heads of state, government ministers, and mayors with a legacy of transformation.
African Centre for Cities has partnered with Big Win Philanthropy on a ground-breaking initiative to catalyse the transformation of cities in Africa: 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 second UTA-DO African Cities Workshop in 2023.
Call for T7 Policy Brief Abstracts to Promote Global Action During G7 Japan 2023
African Centre for Cities Director and South African Research Chair in Urban Policy, Prof Edgar Pieterse, is taking up the co-chair of the Science and Digitalisation for A Better Future task force as part of Think7.
As part of the African Infrastructure Futures Conference, the African Centre for Cities (University of Cape Town) and the Urban Futures Studio (Utrecht University), have mounted an exhibition of 10 case studies showcasing inspiring examples of infrastructure innovation from across the continent.
The African Centre for Cities (ACC) at the University of Cape Town and its partners are convening an African Infrastructure Futures Conference in Cape Town, South Africa, from 21 to 23 November 2022.
Senior ACC research Liza Rose Cirolia has received a UCT College of Fellows’ Young Researcher Award 2022.
The University of Chicago Press has published What is Critical Urbanism? edited by Kenny Cupers, Sophie Oldfield, Manuel Herz, Laura Nkula-Wenz, Emilio Distretti, and Myriam Perret.
ACC PhD candidate Alicia Fortuin, reflects on her attendance of the UTA-Do African Cities Workshop for Early Career Researchers, hosted in Nairobi, Kenya from 23-27 May 2022.
A multidisciplinary, multi-site programme in Gqeberha & Bhisho, Durban, Cape Town and Johannesburg, which allows for a disruption of the performativity of critical debate that often skirts dissensus and discomfort in the dissection of power.
This series of papers by African Centre for Cities and Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft explores the challenges and opportunities for financing sustainable urban infrastructure in African cities.
