Uneven Development, Politics and Governance in Urban Africa: An Analytical Literature Review

Understanding the Politics of Covid-19 in Kampala, Nairobi and Mogadishu: A Political Settlements Approach

“…To our knowledge, however, rather few studies to date have explicitly focused on the politics of Covid and the city. To some extent this is surprising, since not only are capital cities -with their high population densities and comparatively well-developed state machineries -key sites in the struggle against rising infections: they are also often arenas of fierce political struggle, playing an outsized role in deciding the fate of political leaders (Collord et al 2021;Goodfellow and Jackman 2020;Mitlin 2020).…”