In this article I reconsider the handling of urban informality by urban planning and
management systems in southern Africa. I argue that authorities have a fetish about formality …

Working the System offers key insights into the politics of the everyday in twenty-first-century
dominant party and neo-authoritarian regimes in Africa and elsewhere. Detailing the many …

As Africa's foremost “emerging market” Angola is receiving increasing recognition for its oil
wealth, leading to attempts to engage it as a strategic partner, especially amongst the “rising …

Since the end of the Angolan conflict in 2002, the ruling Movemento Popular de Libertação
de Angola (MPLA) party has been promoting a 'master narrative'of 'peace and …

With In the Skin of the City, António Tomás traces the history and transformation of Luanda,
Angola, the nation's capital as well as one of the oldest settlements founded by the …

The theory that property rights increase household income among low-income households
is widely acknowledged, yet empirical studies find scarce evidence of this effect. These …

This dissertation is a case study of the Zango social housing project in Luanda, the capital of
the southern African state of Angola. Through an examination of the Zango project, which …

This work is an ethnography of post-conflict Luanda. It focuses on the informal aspects of the
city, more specifically life in the peri-urban neighbourhoods, or what in Angola is referred to …

This chapter uses the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework in tandem
with Political Economy Approach to analyse the missing links between urban managers and …

Despite its presentation as a pragmatic and universally applicable path to peace, the author
argues that liberal peacebuilding offers no clear break from past colonial and imperial …