The Africa Urban Lab Podcast
The Africa Urban Lab Podcast explores the rapid growth of African cities and how to turn that growth into lasting economic prosperity. Host Kurtis Lockhart speaks with mayors, urban planners, economists, and infrastructure builders about the challenges and opportunities of urbanization. The show focuses on one of the most pressing questions of our time: making Africa's urban expansion work for the continent's future.
Episodes
Ken Opalo on Unleashing African Economic Growth
Our guest is Ken Opalo — Associate Professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and a leading voice on African political economy and development. We discuss what it will take to unleash African economic growth, exploring in particular the institutions, political choices, and state capacity needed to turn Africa’s demographic and urban transition into broad-based prosperity.
Daniel Yu on Export Manufacturing & Labor Mobility
Our guest is Daniel Yu — Founding Partner of the Africa Jobs Fund and Founder of Wasoko. We discuss the Africa Jobs Fund's two main areas of focus, in particular export manufacturing and international labor mobility. We also discuss economic growth more broadly, urbanization, and the drivers of structural transformation.
Stefan Dercon on Implementing Elite Bargins
Our guest is Stefan Dercon — Professor of Economic Policy at Oxford and former Chief Economist at the UK’s Department for International Development (now FCDO). We discuss what it takes for cities and countries to kickstart economic growth, exploring in particular Stefan’s recent work operationalizing elite bargains in the real world. It’s a grounded conversation on why growth and development depen
Astrid Haas on Financing African Cities
Our guest is Astrid Haas — urban economist and one of the leading voices on municipal finance in African cities, whose advisory work spans mayors and finance ministers from across the continent. We dig into the central question facing African cities: how should they pay for themselves? The conversation covers why property taxes remain so underused despite their potential, how cities can move beyon
Joe Studwell on How Africa Works
Our first guest is Joe Studwell — development scholar and author of the landmark How Asia Works — who has just published his long-awaited follow-up book, How Africa Works. We dig into the book's central arguments: why dense cities are essential to building functional markets, how urbanization can actually boost agricultural productivity, and why population density is the key to affordable inf
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