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A giant tree has fallen
Tributes to Ali Al'amin Mazrui
This book memorialising the life and work of Ali Al’Amin Mazrui comprises more than 130 tributes written by people ranging from heads of state to journalists. Presented here are those tributes for which copyright permissions were received from among…
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Calibrating informal cross-border trade in Southern Africa
Sally Peberdy, Jonathan Crush
The study demonstrates that informal cross-border is a complex phenomenon and not uniform across the region, or even through border posts of the same country. However, the overall volume of trade, duties paid and VAT foregone, as well as the types o…
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Comparing Refugees and South Africans in the Urban Informal Sector
Jonathan Crush, Godfrey Tawodzera
This report compares the business operations of over 2,000 South Africans and refugees in the urban informal economy and systematically dispels some of the myths that have grown up around their activities. First, the report takes issue with the perc…
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Deadly denial
Xenophobia governance and the global compact for migration in South Africa
Jonathan Crush
The UN Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration commits signatories "to eliminate all forms of discrimination, condemn and counter expressions, acts and manifestations of racism, racial discrimination, violence, xenophobia and related …
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Food insecurity in informal settlements in Lilongwe Malawi
Emmanuel Chilanga, Liam Riley, Juliana Ngwira
Although there is widespread food availability in urban areas across the Global South, it is not correlated with universal access to adequate amounts of nutritious foods. This report is based on a household survey conducted in 2015 in six low-income…
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Food Security In Africa's Secondary Cities
No.1. Mzuzu, Malawi
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Volume 27
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Liam Riley, Emmanuel Chilanga, Lovemore Zuze
This report marks the first stage of AFSUN’s goal of expanding knowledge about urban food systems and experiences of household food insecurity in secondary African cities. It contributes to an understanding of poverty and sustainability in Mzuzu, Ma…
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Food Security In Africa's Secondary Cities
No.2. The Oshakati-Ongwediva-Ondangwa Corridor, Namibia
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Volume 28
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Ndeyapo Nickanor, Lawrence Kazembe, Jonathan Crush
This is the first research report to examine the nature and drivers of food insecurity in the northern Namibian towns of Oshakati, Ongwediva, and Ondangwa. As well as forming part of a new body of research on secondary urbanization and food security…
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International Migrants in Johannesburgs Informal Economy
Sally Peberdy
Sally Peberdy is a Senior Researcher at the Gauteng City-Region Observatory (GCRO), Johannesburg. This report provides a rich view of the activities of migrant entrepreneurs in the informal economy of Johannesburg. It is hoped that the information w…
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Living With Xenophobia
Zimbabwean Informal Enterprise in South Africa
This report examines the impact of xenophobic violence on Zimbabweans who are trying to make a living in the South African informal sector and finds that xenophobic violence has several key characteristics that put them at constant risk of losing th…
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Problematizing the Foreign Shop
Justifications for Restricting the Migrant Spaza Sector in South Africa
Vanya Gastrow
Vanya Gastrow is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Public Law at the University of Cape Town. This report examines the problematization of migrant-owned businesses in South Africa, and the regulatory efforts aimed at curtailing the…
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Rethinking the medical brain drain narrative
Jonathan Crush
Concerns about the negative impact of the "brain drain" of health professionals from Africa have led to a dominant narrative in which those who migrate are a permanent, and costly, loss to the country of origin and a permanent, and valuable, gain fo…
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The Return of Food
Poverty and Urban Food Security in Zimbabwe after the Crisis
Godfrey Tawodzera
The nadir of Zimbabwe's political and economic crisis in 2008 coincided with the implementation of a baseline household food security survey in Harare by AFSUN. This survey found that households in low income urban areas in Zimbabwe's capital were f…
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