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Urban informality and middle-class aspirations in South Africa and Kenya

This project will take its point of departure in field work carried out by Bodil Folke Frederiksen and myself in two urban slum areas in South Africa and Kenya from the mid-1990s onwards.

Preben Kaarsholm Preben Kaarsholm

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Considering Zimbabwe’s 2017 Coup: Causes, Consequences, Concepts

A faction of Zimbabwe’s ruling party and many soldiers removed the country’s 93 year-old president from power over party and polity during a few weeks of November 2017.

David Moore David Moore

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On Our Own

This is a writing project that would examine South African politics in exile and how that had an impact on the relationship of political parties inside the country.

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