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...
Apr 28, 2026 | Action research, Commentary, Lagos, Nairobi, Research
By Temilade Sesan, ACRC Lagos city manager One of the less visible but highly impactful aspects of the ACRC programme is the opportunity for cross-learning that it presents for urban development researchers, practitioners and policymakers working in different city...
Apr 24, 2026 | Action research, Commentary, Nairobi, Research
By Nyang’wara Chrispine, AMT project lead; Rosebella Apollo, ACRC research uptake officer; Jerry Okal, ACRC Nairobi uptake lead and Georgina Kasamani, AMT landscape architect In Nairobi, the rain does not arrive quietly. It comes with a rhythm the city knows well:...
