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Deadline for applications: January 4 2020 at noon (East African Time)Â
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Prof Giovanni Carbone gave a seminar on leadership and development in Africa,
âPolitical leadership and development in Africa. The project, the dataset, the
findings.âThe seminar is based on his forthcoming book, Political leadership in
Africa. Leaders and development south of the Sahara. It was delivered during TDS
503 lecture (Theory and Design of Development Research), which is taught by Dr
Radha Upadhyaya.
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Dec
Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) invites applications for a 3-year position as Postdoc Researcher, starting on 1 February 2020 or as soon as possible thereafter. The researcher will be part of the collaborative research project âDiaspora Humanitarianism in Complex Crisesâ, focusing on Somalia.
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Dec
The Kenya Transport Research Network (KTRN) based at the Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, and the Socially Just Public Transport Working Group - facilitated by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung-Kenya, (FES Kenya) - will host an informal discussion on âPromoting a Socially Just Public Transport and the Role of Actors in Kenya.â
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IDS Senior Research Fellow, Dr Mary Kinyanjui, presented a seminar entitled, âTowards an African Economic Geography:Â Â Challenges and Lessons Learnedâ, at the University of Nairobi Towers on November 21, 2019.
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Dec
In 1992 Dr Mary Kinyanjui, a Senior Research Fellow at IDS, returned to Kenya after obtaining her PhD in Geography from Cambridge University.
The scholarâs experiences in two Kenyan universities will be the gist of her seminar, âTowards an African Economic Geography: Lesson Learned from Development Studies Research.âÂ