Opinions
As not only an avid reader, but also a keen writer, I have had the honour of having my thoughts, particularly around urbanisation, published and quoted in a wide-ranging set of international outlets.
Podcasts
- 24 February 2025 – OECD How can urbanisation drive more sustainable and inclusive cities in Africa?
- 06 December 2024 – The Century of Cities Rethinking Urban Futures Through Feminist Economics
- 28 August 2024 – CGTN China and the Future of Africa
- 30 July 2024 – China Global South Project What Africa Can Learn About China’s Urbanisation
- 18 March 2023 – Ufahamu Africa, Episode 167: A conversation with Prince Guma, Astrid Haas, and Patience Mususa on urban Africa
- 24 January 2022 – CSAE Research Podcasts, University of Oxford, Urbanisation in China and Africa
TV
- 02 January 2023 – Voice of America Report: 100-year Coastal Floods in Africa Now Happen Every 40 Years
- 23 June 2022 – CNBC Africa Why Urbanisation is Africa’s Biggest Opportunity
- 16 February 2022 – Voice of America Straight Talk Africa, Urban Development and Informal Settlements
- 10 July 2020 Voice of America Our Voices What is Africa’s “next normal”?
- November 2019 Deutsche Welle, Business Africa Africa’s Cities of the Future
Radio
- 29 April 2025 – Cape Talk Views and News with Clarence Ford
- 7 April 2020 – 91.3 Voice of the Cape How to shape Africa’s urban areas to withstand future pandemics
- 27 June 2020 – BBC World Service The Real Story How will COVID-19 change our cities?
- 26 November 2019 – ABC National Radio Counterpoint Cities and Suspicion
- 26 November 2019 – Kaya FM Cape Town, South Africa on Smart Cities
- 15 July 2025 – URBANET Putting the Public Back in Finance: Reclaiming Urban Infrastructure for the Common Good
- 05 June 2025 – Africa Urban Lab The O-Ring Theory of Municipal Finance: Why Every Link in th Chain Matters for African Cities
- 07 May 2025 – The Citizen (Tanzania) quoted in Africa’s urban boom needs funding fix
- 21 November 2024 – Daily Monitor (Uganda) quoted in “From traffic madness to passenger train chaos”
- 05 November 2024 – The Conversation Africa quoted in Africa’s cities are growing chaotically fast, but there’s time to get things right – insights from experts
- 06 September 2024 – Al Jazeera quoted in As China, Africa woo each other, who gains more? It’s complex, say experts
- 01 September 2024 – Hong Kong News Exporting Hong Kong’s Land Sales Model: What Can African Cities Learn from This Unique Land Lease System?
- 08 May 2024 – Africa Report quoted in Africa needs public finance reforms to set its cities free
- 08 October 2023 – Le Monde quoted in En Afrique la villes etend entre anarchie et developpement
- 18 April 2023 – African Cities Research Consortium Blog Building cities for all (not the privileged few).
- 09 March 2023 – The Economist quoted in Beyond the Metropolis.
- 11 November 2022 – Gavi Vaccine Alliance Ebola in Uganda: lessons from COVID show that heavy-handed lockdowns may be a bad idea
- 27 October 2022 – The Guardian quoted in Howard French’s Megalopolis: how coastal west Africa will shape the coming century
- 04 September 2022 – Daily Monitor (Uganda) quoted in “Kampalans Lose 52 Days to Traffic Jams Every Year.”
- 04 July 2022 – City Monitor Africa’s smaller cities are usually overlooked but they shouldn’t be
- December 2020 – Wired World “2021 will see a more formalised public transport system in many African Cities”
- 30 December 2020 – Clarin quoted in El inicio de la fase operativa del AfCFTA enfrenta a África a viejos lastres
- 27 December 2020 – FDI Intelligence quoted in New cities to change African topography
- 7 July 2020 – ESADE Blog Urban Governance: Building an Effective Authorising Environment for Cities that Work
- 19 September 2018 – OECD Development Matters Data: the first step to improving finance for African cities
- 31 July 2018 – Bloomberg City Lab Maize sellers where skyscrapers could be
- 4 April 2017 – Financial Times China’s export of capital offers new opportunities for Africa
- 09 May 2016 – World Policy The second eradication of our time
The Independent (Uganda)
- 27 August 2024 Raising revenue from land
- 20 February 2023 quoted in Dubai unveils plan for flying taxis in 2026
- 09 February 2023 New look at Kampala, Kigali and Addis Ababa
- 11 July 2022 Kampala city needs green mass public transportation now
- 25 May 2020 Shaping Africa’s Urban Areas to Withstand Future Pandemics
- 27 April 2020 Food During Lockdowns
- 20 March 2017 Uganda Needs a Caffeine Fix
The Conversation Africa
- 20 August 2025 2 in 3 Africans will live in cities by 2050: How planners can put this to good use
- 25 March 2025 Wealthy nations owe climate debt to Africa – funds that could help cities grow (French)
- 3 September 2024 China’s investments in Africa aren’t working as well as they should for cities: this needs to change (French)
- 11 August 2024 Raising revenue from land: what African cities might learn from Hong Kong’s unique land-lease system (French)
- 10 July 2024 African urbanisation: what (and can’t) be learned from China about growing cities (French)
- 19 June 2023 African cities and climate change: the real debate is who should pay to fix the problem
- 08 March 2023 As an urban economist I have seen the benefits of diversity. So why are there so few women in top development posts?
- 30 January 2023 Kampala, Kigali and Addis Ababa are changing fast: new book follows their distinct paths
- 15 November 2022 Global climate finance leaves out cities: fixing it is critical to battling climate change
- 02 November 2022 Ebola in Uganda: lessons from COVID show that heavy-handed lockdowns may be a bad idea
- 25 July 2022 Africa’s free trade area offers promise for cities – but only if there’s investment
- 20 June 2022 Africa’s smaller cities are usually overlooked but they shouldn’t be
- 6 March 2022 COVID shutdowns exposed flaws in Uganda’s transport system: how to fix them
- 26 October 2020 Restrictions in trade to contain COVID-19 have been devastating for Africa’s urban poor
- 29 July 2020 Africa’s high density urban settlements: cut the red tape and slash the cost of housing
- 3 May 2020 A novel idea: integrating urban and rural safety nets in Africa during the pandemic
- 16 April 2020 How to ensure poor people in Africa’s cities can still get food during lockdowns
- 1 April 2020 Shaping Africa’s urban areas to withstand future pandemics
- 30 October 2019 Building new cities to meet Africa’s rapid urbanisation is a risky bet
- 15 May 2019 Getting the right institutions in place to run Africa’s cities efficiently
- 15 January 2018 Key models that Kampala needs to consider to manage its urban sprawl
- 9 March 2017 Uganda needs a caffeine fix: insights from Vietnam’s coffee market success
- 25 February 2016 What Museveni’s priorities must be if Uganda is to become middle income
- 3 March 2016 What South Sudan will gain from joining the East African Community
- 31 March 2016 The perils of relying on oil as the only resource for development
- 5 April 2016 Clinton and Trump: deciphering what their policies may mean for Africa
- 24 December 2015 Why Kampala holds single biggest growth opportunity for Uganda
The East African
- 10 December 2022 Lessons from termites in greening towns as Africa heads to 2050 with new cities
- 17 September 2022 King Charles III approach to urban planning in the Commonwealth
- 10 September 2022 What it means to lose 52 days to traffic every year
- 03 September 2022 Fuel, Food and Finance: Yes, the Ukraine war is impacting our economies, but we cannot blame it for everything
- 27 July 2022 What Uber Leaks revealed about the world was already common knowledge in Africa
- 16 July 2022 The Deep Flaws in Kampala’s Newest Attempts to Regulate the Boda Industry
- 09 July 2022 Cities in Name Only?
- 25 June 2022 Africa’s smaller cities are usually overlooked but they shouldn’t be
- 16 August 2016 Uber is arriving now: Driving urban mobility in Africa
London School of Economics Blog
- 22 October 2020 Devolve more power to cities: they will need it more than ever
- 25 April 2018 Where are Kampala’s missing houses?
- 7 February 2018 Why metropolitan structures matter for Kampala
International Growth Centre Blog
- 01 February 2021 How transport reforms have impacted urban connectivity in Kenya
- 30 November 2020 Housing in Hawassa: How to accommodate migrant labour in industrialising cities
- 27 November 2020 What a rapidly urbanising Africa can learn from China’s experience
- 13 August 2020 Property taxes in a pandemic world
- 18 June 2020 Empowering our cities to fight the pandemics of the future
- 03 April 2020 Could the economic cost outpace the health impact of COVID-19 in Africa?
- 26 November 2018 Data for decision-making: How spatial data is shaping the African urbanisation story
- 02 October 2017 Tackling the big stink: Investing in water and sanitation systems
- 28 August 2017 Incremental reform for public transportation: From mini-vans to buses
- 17 January 2017 From moving vehicles to moving people: Designing a mass public transportation system for Kampala
- 7 December 2016 Kampala, where urbanisation is not synonymous with industrialisation
- 26 October 2016 Proceed with caution: South Sudan and the East African Monetary Union
- 12 September 2016 Impact of fiscal policy on inequality and poverty in Uganda
- 1 September 2016 Corruption in Construction
- 7 March 2016 What South Sudan will gain from joining the East African Community
- 17 December 2015 Moving from a fixed to a floating exchange rate: The case of the South Sudanese Pound