AFRIGOS project

AFRIcan GOvernance & Space: ERC funded academic research on transport corridors, border towns & port cities by @GeorgeNugybaby, @WolZeller, @JosefitoDabbol

[AFRIGOS project @AFRIGOS]

Transport Corridors in Africa, the fruit of 6 years of collaboration under the ERC-funded @AFRIGOS project, is now freely available under open access @Boydell_Africa👇

https://t.co/2r7vc16JSW

[Elisa Gambino @drelisagambino]

⏬Planning to submit a paper to #ECAS2025?

If you are researching everyday brokerage, trade, and cooperation in the context of South-South engagement in Africa, consider submitting to the panel I co-convene with @cosfranceschini!

👇👇https://t.co/IFZ1b58o1t

@GlobalDevInst

[Yearbook on the African Union @Yearbook_AU]

📢 The first 3 volumes of the Yearbook on the @_AfricanUnion (2020, 2021, 2022) are now available as "open access" files ➡️ https://t.co/ypKsHDrgML
@BrillPublishing @ReCentGlobe @UNOAU_ @AUC_PAPS @APRMorg @au_ied @AUC_PAPS @issafrica @EUtoAU @GIZAfricanUnion @CRG_PoliticsIR

[Elisa Gambino @drelisagambino]

🚨New publication out! Just in time for @regstud conference!

Written with @R_Reboredo1, it explores the relationship between infrastructure and labour through the lens of suspension.

The article is open access on @RSA_TPG 👇
https://t.co/vgADRdB5ml

@GlobalDevInst @AFRIGOS

[Bruce Byiers @BruceByiers]

Looking forward to discussing Africa's @UNDPBorderlands - Trends, Insights and Opportunities next Tues based on past @ecdpm work on the political economy of different trade & transport corridors @AFRIGOS @TradeMarkAfrica @AfCFTANews

[AFRIGOS project @AFRIGOS]

One of many @AFRIGOS research outputs. Thanks again to all contributors & project members for their invaluable insight & effort! @GeorgeNugybaby @JosefitoDabbol @HughLamarque @drelisagambino @TZajontz @IsabS25 @ZHamoui @solietejosa @BruceByiers @AbdoulMohamado5 @ojwalther et al.

[Boydell Africa @Boydell_Africa]

In-depth examination of the inherent tensions and dynamics of transport corridors in #Africa. Available in paperback and as an #OpenAccess ebook. https://t.co/FE9CV7E0Wj

[Tim Zajontz @TZajontz]

📢Output from our @DecolonialityN research tandem: @ShangweliBeria & I write on "Geopolitics-𝑐𝑢𝑚-Geoeconomics in East Africa: New Scrambles and Omni-alignments"➡️https://t.co/6gBVIBp2zF
@CAAC_Network @IPSS_Addis @SCWObservatory @MT_Afrika @CamGeopolitics @ThabitSenior @Udadisi

[African Studies Association @ASANewsOnline]

New Call for Co-Panelists - African Music and Popular Culture in a Globalizing World is looking for presenters like you! Read the full call and submit your abstract today. https://t.co/1Oa3uGYQSj

[Elisa Gambino @drelisagambino]

Excited to see this out!🚨Check out the chapter on labour relations in Sino-African construction sites 🚧

Based on the research I conducted in Lamu port construction site in Kenya, the chapter with @MandiraBugzy discusses the practice“living at work" as...

[Tim Zajontz @TZajontz]

🥁📢My book is out now with @Palgrave.
➡️https://t.co/N8pKcb7xT3
Thanks to family & friends for their support! 🙏
Some pretty wise people read the manuscript & said pretty kind things about it. 👇🧵@PW_UniFreiburg @DecolonialityN @SCWObservatory @CAAC_Network @ChinaGSProject

[Yearbook on the African Union @Yearbook_AU]

📢The 3rd volume of the Yearbook on the @_AfricanUnion is out now with @BrillPublishing. It covers developments in all major policy fields throughout 2022.➡️https://t.co/hfbNJvlDj7
A🧵on the book content. 👇

[Elisa Gambino @drelisagambino]

🚨AISAC Conference 2024 🚨

@AISAfricaCina is excited to open the CfP for the conference titled "Africa and China: Actors, Methods, and Geopolitics in the Everyday", to be held in Padua on 12th April 2024.

Check out the conference themes 👇

[Tim Zajontz @TZajontz]

@EKMatambo, @alykhansatchu & myself spoke to @SCMPNews about the future of Africa's 'Freedom Railway' @TAZARAHQ & about competition between #China & "the West" to control transport corridors across Africa👉https://t.co/qsJgJHrRGv @PW_UniFreiburg @DecolonialityN @SCWObservatory

[Tim Zajontz @TZajontz]

Join us this Thursday for the fall panel of the China-Africa Working Group @africa_uf. We will discuss the role of #connectivity and #railway politics in Africa-China relations. Details & registration👉https://t.co/ecFlYyrrjc @CAAC_Network @ACT_UniFreiburg @DecolonialityN

[Tim Zajontz @TZajontz]

Many thanks to Sören Scholvin (@UCNorte) for this constructive-critical review of our book on #China's role in #Africa's #RailwayRenaissance (published by @routledgebooks)➡️https://t.co/MqTtKFXK5I For those interested in the book: 20% discount with code AFL03. @TandF_Africa

[Tim Zajontz @TZajontz]

🚂 Join us for tomorrow's discussion on #China's role in Africa's #RailwayRenaissance and the wider #geopolitics-cum-#geoeconomics surrounding African #infrastructure - co-hosted by @USChinaGU & @HUCenterAfrica. @PW_UniFreiburg @SCWObservatory @CAAC_Network @CRG_PoliticsIR

[Tim Zajontz @TZajontz]

In July, I sat down with 2 of my favourite colleagues, @seth_schindler & @jessicamdicarlo, to discuss contemporary geopolitical developments across #Africa. Listen to some of my views - as a student of Africa - on this Roundtable podcast. @SCWObservatory

[Tim Zajontz @TZajontz]

Open access article, co-authored with Kjeld van Wieringen, on #China's "turn" towards #PPPs in #Africa as a means to "metagovern" the #BRI is out now in @GIGA_Institute's Journal of Current Chinese Affairs👉https://t.co/8xRt0XO4gi @CAAC_Network @SCWObservatory @ChinaGSProject

[Yearbook on the African Union @Yearbook_AU]

A sneak peek at the 3rd volume of the Yearbook on the @_AfricanUnion, edited by Ulf Engel (@ReCentGlobe) & published by @BrillPublishing. The ebook will come out in November, the print shortly thereafter. @tmurithi12 @cherylhen @DawitYK @BruceByiers @_IJR_ @TZajontz @tiekutom

[Tim Zajontz @TZajontz]

🚂🌍🇨🇳 These beauties just arrived. You can order your (e)copy here ➡️ https://t.co/SFpWxug8Xw A 20% discount applies when using the code AFL02. @TandF_Africa @GSW_TUDresden @CAAC_Network @ChinaGSProject @lajohnstondr @ShangweliBeria @Udadisi @DKopinski @Hangwei_Li @SaisCari

[AFRIGOS project @AFRIGOS]

Timely book on Africa's Railway Renaissance, with contributions from @AFRIGOS researchers @TZajontz and @HughLamarque. ➡️ https://t.co/LokuNp42m2