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Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Urban Dynamics

Regionalising African civil societies : lessons, opportunities and constraints

Upphovsperson: Millstein, Marianne
Utgivare: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Urban Dynamics | Uppsala
År: 2015
Ämnesord: Africa, Regionalism, regionalization, regional integration, Governance, Civil Society, nongovernmental organizations, Urban areas
<p>Report from the workshop 'Regionalising African civil societies : lessons, opportunities and constraints', held in Uppsala, Sweden in October 2014 and co-organised by the Nordic Africa Institute (Sweden), the West Africa Civil Society Institute (Ghana) and the Department of Human Geography at Stockholm University (Sweden).</p>

Improved recycling performance : Policy options for Nigerian cities

Upphovspersoner: Nzeadibe, Thaddeus Chidi | Adama-Ajonye, Onyanta
Utgivare: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Urban Dynamics | Uppsala, Sweden
År: 2013
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In Nigeria there is a glaring absence of formal recycling of municipal waste. As a result, the informal sector has taken up the role of “critical but unacknowledged gap filler” in the waste recycling system, achieving low but significant recy­cling rates. This policy note deals with what can be done to improve recycling performance in Nigerian cities.

Resettled for Development : The Case of New Halfa Agricultural Scheme, Sudan

Upphovsperson: Wallin, Marianna
Utgivare: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Urban Dynamics | Uppsala, Sweden
År: 2014
Ämnesord: Sudan, New Halfa, Agricultural development, Resettlement, Irrigation, Living conditions, Nubians, Pastoralists, Nomads
This Current African Issues discusses the displacement and resettlement of the Sudanese Nubians into the New Halfa agricultural scheme in Eastern Sudan, the current state of this multi-ethnic community and the challenges the farmers are facing. The Nubians of Wadi Halfa in Northern Sudan (also called the Halfawi Nubians) had to be relocated to New Halfa due to the construction of the Aswan High Dam in the early 1960s. In addition to the loss of ancestral land and the alienation they experienced, the Halfawi Nubians struggled to secure a sufficient livelihood in New Halfa and found their lives irreversibly altered. Although the resettlement of the Nubians did not succeed in rooting them in their new territory and a lot of the Halfawi Nubians have since abandoned the scheme, New Halfa has also created unforeseen opportunities for internally displaced people and migrant workers and become a growing regional centre for business and commerce. Despite the fact that New Halfa failed to meet its original targets, it is an example of a resettlement scheme that, in 50 years, developed and adjusted according to the needs of its current inhabitants.

Infrastructure turned suprastructure : unpredictable materialities and visions of a Nigerian nation

Upphovspersoner: Trovalla, Ulrika | Trovalla, Eric
Utgivare: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Urban Dynamics
År: 2014
Ämnesord: African urbanity, anthropology, infrastructure, materiality, Nigeria, Jos, Urban environment, SOCIAL SCIENCES, SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP
There are signs hidden in the infrastructure. In the Nigerian city of Jos, the unpredictable availability of power, fuel, water, etc. becomes a vehicle of meaning. In many settings across the globe, infrastructure is often made invisible, and the centre stage that it takes in everyday life remains unrecognized. In Jos, however, as in many African cities, the constant need to predict its flows contradicts the prefix infra (below); rather than being hidden beneath the realm of experience it is brought to the surface as a puzzle to be figured out. These explorations in turn come to reveal matters beyond the infrastructure itself. Just as diviners infer the state of the world from the stones they have thrown, reading significance out of the seeming randomness of matter, the infrastructure turns intricate questions into tangible clues. It becomes a suprastructure - a divination tool giving clues about the past, present and future of the Nigerian nation.

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