Negotiating LPG in Urban Transportation: Taxi Drivers Stepping on the Gas in Accra and Bobo-Dioulasso In Negotiating LPG in Urban Transportation, Kanazoé and Nabos explore how taxi drivers in Accra and Bobo-Dioulasso have turned domestic LPG into a lifeline amid rising fuel costs, navigating ambiguous...

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#MIASA blog post by H. Kanazoé & E. Nabos on "Negotiating LPG in Urban Transportation," or how taxi drivers use LPG as a survival strategy, defying rules & reshaping mobility in West Africa.

🔗 miasa.hypotheses.org/?p=5156

#UrbanMobility #InformalEconomies #WestAfrica #Innovation

Fellowship Programme - MIASA - Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa MIASA offers different types of fellowships. Central to the thematic identity of MIASA is that the research topics must match MIASA’s umbrella topic

👉Open call for applications for Individual Residential #Fellowships at #MIASA at the Univ. of Ghana in 2026/27.

Deadline: 15 Sept

Info: miasa.ug.edu.gh/fellowship-p...

Politike Bishimbo: Humour, Statehood and Social Ambivalence in the 2023 elections of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Author: Silke Oldenburg with Christian Mwemezi Ngangura) The journalists ask, “Shako, who are you going to vote for?”. Shako responds, “In the presidential election, I will vote for my father; in the national election, I will vote for my mother; and...

See our recent blog post by #MIASA alumna Silke Oldenburg (Geneva Graduate Institute) on „Politike Bishimbo: Humour, Statehood and Social Ambivalence in the 2023 elections of the Democratic Republic of the Congo“

miasa.hypotheses.org/4473

#elections
#DRC
#humour
#statehood

👉Open call for applications for Individual Residential #Fellowships at #MIASA at the Univ. of Ghana in 2026/27.
Deadline: 15 Sept
Info: miasa.ug.edu.gh/fellowship-p...

@abi-freiburg.bsky.social @friasunifreiburg.bsky.social @zasb.unibas.ch @africamultiple.bsky.social @colonial-memories.bsky.social

#MIASA has opened its calls for applications for fellowships at the University of Ghana in 2026/27.

If you are interested, check out the we site on: miasa.ug.edu.gh/fellowship-p...

Open call for applications for Individual Residential #Fellowships at #MIASA at the Univ. of Ghana in 2026/27.
Deadline: 15 Sept
Info: miasa.ug.edu.gh/fellowship-p...

@uni-freiburg.de @goetheuni.bsky.social @giga-hamburg.de @dhi-paris.fr @actunifreiburg.bsky.social @friasunifreiburg.bsky.social

Last day of #ECAS2025 in #Prague. It is great seeing so many familiar faces here.

The #MIASA family keeps growing…

@miasa-ug.bsky.social

Great to see future #MIASA #fellows here at #ECAS2025 in #Prague
@timglawion.bsky.social

Our partner institute @dhi-paris.fr is offering a PhD position in #African #History for one year. The position will also be involved in the science communication of #MIASA
More info see below 👇

Außenansicht Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris

#CfA Promotionsstelle

📍 am @dhiparis.wisskomm.social.ap.brid.gy im Forschungsbereich "Geschichte Afrikas" | Durchführung des eigenen Dissertationsprojektes und Wissenschaftskommunikation für das #MIASA

Bewerbungsschluss: 3. Juli 2025

🔗 karriere.maxweberstiftung.de/jobposting/0...

Invitation to upcoming #MIASA Public lecture by Dr. Stephanie Lämmert on "(Un)silencing #women in the colonial #archive" on 27 May 2025 at 3:00 pm (UTC) at the Univ. of Ghana.
Zoom link via: miasa.ug.edu.gh/event/public...

We are continuing with our #MIASA conference on #Cash in #Crisis in #Africa at ISSER Conference Hall, Univ. of Ghana.
More info via: miasa.ug.edu.gh/event/ifg12-...

About to start the #MIASA conference on #Cash in #Crisis Times in #Africa at the #ISSER conference Hall, Univ. of Ghana, organized by #IF12, with Keynote address by Fabio Knümann from the @bundesbank.de, Germany.
Zoom link via: miasa.ug.edu.gh/event/ifg12-...

Join us next week 20&21 May for the #MIASA #IFG12 conference on #Cash in #Crisis in #Africa: Navigating financial realities in times of #disruption at Univ. of Ghana and online.
More info via: miasa.ug.edu.gh/event/ifg12-...

Last week #MIASA hosted its 5th #Writing Workshop at the University of Ghana in collab with
@goetheuni.bsky.social. Participants were early- to mid-career researchers writing on #democracy, #conflict #resolution and #climate change from 9 different African countries.

Affiche de "Retours, restitutions. Bouleverser les musées et les recherches de provenances"

Bouleverser les #musées & les recherches de #provenances : Journée d'étude à la Fondation Lucien Paye & Fondation Héllénique sur les #retours & #restitutions avec @rheinze.bsky.social en coopération avec #MIASA & @centremarcbloch.bsky.social

11.–12.04. | 14h

www.dhi-paris.fr/fr/...

#Afrique #CIUP

Well-known scholar being announced in Germany: "I don't need to tell you who we have invited today, you all know him and have read his books. Now without further ado..."

Well-known scholar being announced in Ghana: *Griot steps up w/ kora and sings a five minute praise song*

#MIASA #AmoLecture