Africa really is changing

Over the weekend I read through the publications of an academic who is up for promotion at the University of Ghana. Although as a reviewer I had to pay attention to the usual details that matter to academics (methods, theory, etc), reading his incredibly detailed...

An amazing week in Durban

Posted on FB on 13 September 2015: Sustainable Urbanization – a global South perspective. An amazing five days has just come to an end here in Durban. Wednesdeay through to Saturday was spent facilitating a session on Sustainable Urbanization focussed on the...

Why Durban?

I wrote this reflection while facilitation a workshop on sustainable urbanization in Durban last week: Durban – origin of so many South African movements: John Dube, Inanda, 1920s – early years of the ANC; Albert Luthuli, ANC in the 1950s (won Nobel Prize...