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Development, labour & the African city

Modernisation, structural adjustment, land, livelihoods, urbanisation and the distribution of public resources.

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Sandstone east tower of the Union Buildings in Pretoria, photographed in 2017.
The Union Buildings’ east tower, Pretoria, 17 November 2017. The 1956 women’s march brought its demands to this administrative seat.
Bernard Gagnon · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Union Buildings – East tower

Historical record: 2017-11-17.

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Gender, inequality & social experienceJournal essay

South African women made citizenship a question of work, movement and the home

State, authority & accountabilityDevelopment, labour & the African cityHistory, culture & knowledge
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Vice-President Sebastien Pillay speaks at a table with microphones, with the Seychelles flag behind him.
Vice-President Sebastien Pillay at State House, Seychelles, during the 14 October 2026 briefing on public-service digital reform. Photo: State House Seychelles / APO Group.
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Vice-President at the 14 October 2026 public-service briefing

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Seychelles sets a 2027 HR-system transition goal within wider public-service reform

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Speaker Jacob Marksons Oboth in ceremonial robes among colleagues after a sitting of Uganda’s Parliament.
Speaker Jacob Marksons Oboth leaves Uganda’s Parliament after the plenary sitting on 14 October 2026. Photo: Parliament of Uganda / APO Group.
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Speaker leaves Uganda Parliament after the 14 October 2026 sitting

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Uganda’s Parliament seeks a charcoal-enforcement pause and answers on energy alternatives

Development, labour & the African cityGender, inequality & social experience
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Sunlight enters the ruined coral-stone mosque interior through pointed arches and roof openings at Kilwa Kisiwani.
Inside the Great Mosque at Kilwa Kisiwani, photographed on 16 July 2016. Janetmpurdy / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Janetmpurdy · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Great Mosque Kilwa Kisiwani Tanzania

Historical record: 2016-07-16.

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Development, labour & the African cityJournal essay

Kilwa’s trading cities: how archaeology reveals an African urban history

International relations & political economyHistory, culture & knowledge
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Fuh Calistus Gentry and Maria van der Hoeven standing before an EITI banner
Fuh Calistus Gentry and EITI Board Chair Maria van der Hoeven at their meeting in Brussels, 9 October 2026. MINMIDT / APO Group.
MINMIDT (Cameroon) / APO Group
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Cameroon minister and EITI Board chair, Brussels, 9 October 2026

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Cameroon seeks an end to its EITI suspension; civil-society participation remains central

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Two handwritten pages of Hendrik Witbooi’s letter journal, with folio numbers 118 and 119
Pages 118–119 of Hendrik Witbooi's Letter Journal No. 1, dated 20 May 1891. Historic manuscript, reproduced from the Digital Namibian Archive via Wikimedia Commons.
Hendrik Witbooi (1830–1905) · Public domain
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Historical record: 1891-05-20.

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State, authority & accountabilityJournal essay

Land, custom and the postcolonial state: Namibia’s divided authority

Development, labour & the African cityGender, inequality & social experience
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