This paper considers the foundations of contemporary African urban economies and how
these intersect with the evolution of urban politics, carving a route through a wide range of …

ABSTRACT A number of international development initiatives increasingly give recognition
and authority to city governments in sub-Saharan Africa. However, key features of urban …

On 12 August 2021, Hakainde Hichilema of the opposition United Party for National
Development (UPND) was electedZambia's seventh presidentin a landslide. The defeat of …

African cities are critical to the continent's prospects of achieving environmentally
sustainable forms of prosperity and poverty reduction. Can Africa cities help generate …

Zambia experienced a decade of strong economic growth from 2004 to 2014, averaging 7.4
percent a year. This growth has been linked, first and foremost, to the rise of copper prices …

Much has been written about the strength of African presidentialism. This article studies the
resilience of presidential power in Zambia in the face of electoral turnover. Opposition …

Zambia experienced its third electoral turnover in the 2021 election. While the ruling Patriotic
Front (PF) lost votes across the territory, the electoral collapse in urban Zambia was …

Previous literature suggests that some African parties employ non-valence positional issues
in their party platforms and that this practice is more prevalent in some countries than in …

This book interrogates the ideology and practices of liberal constitutionalism in the Zambian
postcolony. The analysis focuses on the residual political and governmental effects of an …

This article examines the failure of the ruling Patriotic Front (PF) government to secure the
electoral support of Copperbelt mine communities in the 2021 Zambian election, despite its …