Ethiopia, the second-most populous country in Africa after Nigeria, has more than one
hundred million people and is one of the world's fastest-growing countries in terms of …

From innovations in mobile money to bookkeeping devices, the burgeoning of financial-
technologies (fintech) in the Global South has been critiqued by scholars concerned with …

Three concurrent global environmental trends are particularly apparent: human population
growth, urbanization, and climate change. Especially in countries such as Ethiopia in the …

The current global development agendas provide relatively little guidance on how the
incredible challenge of sustainable urban development in Africa can and should be …

Despite the rise of global technocratic ideals of city-making, cities around the world are not
merging into indistinguishable duplicates of one another. In fact, as the world urbanizes …

There is an emerging body of literature documenting subversive strategies of urban
disadvantaged groups in response to urban exclusion, but it is limited in capturing urban …

CONCRETE CITY “Armelle Choplin's Concrete City weaves a novel and engaging analysis
of urbanization by tracing the journeys of cement and people making urban life in West …

Tens of thousands of young Ethiopian women have migrated from small towns and rural
areas to work in the Hawassa Industrial Park (HIP), where working conditions and wages …

Ethiopia's mass-scale subsidized housing delivery programme has driven the rapid
expansion of middle-income, mid-rise settlements on the outskirts of Addis Ababa, requiring …

This article offers a longitudinal study of the complex entanglements between infrastructure
and sovereignty in the Horn of Africa. By analysing Ethiopia's imperial transport corridors …