Visa rejection for African experts hits GDI conference
Today, we’re welcoming researchers and activists to Manchester for a conference on the challenges and opportunities of scaling up participation in urban settings. But of the ten keynote speakers we invited from the Global South, only five have received a visa to...Eritrean independence celebrations after the rapprochement with Ethiopia: plus ça change?
By Tanja R. Müller Fittingly, a few days since I returned from a visit to Eritrea that coincided with the 28th celebration of Eritrean independence on 24th May, an academic article I wrote in November 2018 about the rapprochement between Eritrea and Ethiopia has just...
GDI Lecture: Ambitious and ambiguous public investments in African cities with Edgar Pieterse
Listen or watch Professor Edgar Pieterse, DST/NRF South African Research Chair in Urban Policy, Director the African Centre for Cities and Professor in the School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics, all at the University of Cape Town, discuss his forthcoming book...
GDI Lecture: Forced labour in global agricultural supply chains with Genevieve Le Baron
Listen or watch Professor Genevieve Le Baron, Co-Director, Sheffield Political Economy Research Intitute (SPERI), The University of Sheffield, discuss the business of forced labour in global agricultural supply chains You can subscribe to the podcast on: Spotify...