Oct 15, 2026 | Action research, Commentary, Nairobi, Research
By Janice, Shiko, Obuma, Maureen Oguyo, Calvince Moda, Jane Wambui, Leah Nakami, Evans, Hellen, Ruth, Naomi, Tobias and Stella – Mathare community co-researchers Before we began the land enumeration, we thought we understood how power worked in Mathare. We grew up...
Oct 13, 2026 | Action research, Commentary, Nairobi, Research
By Maureen Oguyo, Calvince Moda, Jane Wambui, Leah Nakami, Evans, Hellen, Ruth, Naomi, Tobias, Stella, Janice, Shiko, Obuma – Mathare community co-researchers “Who sent you?” It was one of the first questions we heard while carrying out land enumeration in...
Jul 16, 2026 | Action research, Commentary, Lagos, Nairobi, Research
“When we talk about exchanges, we are not saying one city go to another city to learn. It is one city going to another city to participate in something that is happening there. So there’s no workshop style learning. It is just come and experience with us and it...
Jun 10, 2026 | Lagos, Nairobi, News, Research
By Jerry Okal, Susan Mwanzia and Ismail Ibraheem On Wednesday 6 May, ACRC colleagues met with the former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo at his Presidential Library in Abeokuta. The meeting was timely and insightful, and it turned out to be far more than a...
May 20, 2026 | Action research, Commentary, Lagos, Nairobi, Research
By Oluwaseun Muraina and Rasheed Shittu, ACRC Lagos action research project co-leads When a key character in Game of Thrones tells Queen Cersei that “knowledge is power”, her immediate response is to order his death, with the retort that “power is power”. We can draw...
May 20, 2026 | Action research, Commentary, Lagos, Nairobi, Research
By Patrick Njoroge , Rex Otieno and Maureen Musya In early February, the Akiba Mashinani Trust (AMT) led a nine-person delegation from Nairobi for a weeklong learning exchange visit to Okerube informal settlement in Lagos. The visit built on a previous exchange, when...
