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Urban Africa Risk Knowledge (Urban ARK): Disrupting risk accumulation through enhanced local capacities across the Global South.

How can cities in the global south alleviate the effects of urban risks? Professor Adriana Allen, Professor Cassidy Johnson, Dr. Emmauel Osuteye and Dr Rita Lambert investigate what can be done.

Helping secure Asmara’s UNESCO World Heritage status

Decades of research and consultancy by Professor Edward Denison and Guang Yu Ren helped in achieving UNESCO World Heritage Site status for Asmara, the capital of Eritrea.

Anansi And The Reincarnation of Achilles Street Estate

Tabatha Crook shares her research project exploring folklore, religious belief and fiction as a direct response to the harshly pragmatic, uninventive strategies being applied to social housing estates

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Power Systems: Conversations with David Barsamian on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire

Associate Professor Felicity Atekpe presents ‘Power Systems: Conversations with David Barsamian on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire’ by Noam Chomsky who is exploring the most immediate and urgent concerns facing humanity

Inclusive Pedagogies for Early Childhood Education: Respecting and Responding to Differences in Learning

"Inclusive Pedagogies for Early Childhood Education: Respecting and Responding to Differences in Learning" by Carmel Conn and Alison Murphy, published in 2022, offers an exploration of inclusive pedagogies in early childhood education.

Oneness vs the 1% – Shattering Illusions

World-renowned environmental thinker and activist, Vandana Shiv's "Oneness vs. the 1%" advocates for real knowledge and freedom in the face of profit-driven oppression.

"The Role Of Ephemerality In The Queer Nightclub"

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"It’s always varying degrees of terror"

Isaac Nanabeyin Simpson on an architecture between cultures.

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“Asmara’s inscription has also challenged international perceptions of Eritrea, where it is often misrepresented as being in perpetual conflict”

Helping secure Asmara’s UNESCO World Heritage status

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