Shakirah Hudani

Meet the Finalists of the 2025 Global Cities Book Award | Metropolis

Very honored that 'Master Plans and Minor Acts' is one of three finalists for the 2025 Pattis Family Foundation Global Cities Book Award (Metropolis).
Congratulations to @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social and Stephanie Wakefield and many thanks to the judging panel!
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Lucky to be interviewed by Dr Hallie Wells here:
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10 Books for Urban Thinkers This Summer | Metropolis The 2025 Pattis Family Foundation Global Cities Book Award Long List Books have the power to transform how cities are understood, governed, and experienced. The Pattis Family Foundation Global Cities...

Excited that my book is long listed for the 2025 Pattis Family Foundation Global Cities Book Award
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Lagos, unbound tempest beneath your feet We Built This City is a limited series of photo essays by The Continent on African cities. This week, we are in Lagos with Victor Adewale.

We Built This City is a limited series of photo essays by The Continent on African cities. This week, we are in Lagos with Victor Adewale.

Khartoum's Acropole Hotel, survivor of coups and attacks, succumbs to civil war One of Khartoums oldest and most loved hotels has survived coups, wars, and even a bomb attack, but it couldn't weather Sudan's civil war.

Beautifully wrought, long radio feature seeing the devastation of Khartoum through the destruction of a legenday hotel. (Reminds me of lodging amid ruins in Port-aux-Princes, Brazzaville, Kisangani, Monrovia, Kampala, etc., etc. www.npr.org/2025/06/15/n...

UNC faculty concerned over lack of tenure for professors WRAL has obtained a letter from the faculty chair to the dean and chancellor at UNC-Chapel Hill expressing concern about a lack of tenure for certain professors.

I’m one of 20 assistant professors in A&S at UNC who has had their tenure decision deferred.

I was planning to spend my summer editing my third book. Now? 🤷🏻‍♀️

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New Online 1st Book Review “Complicating the master plan” by Claudia Gastrow

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Contentious plots: Staking durable claims to ethnic belonging in Nairobi - Shakirah E Hudani, 2025 How are ethnicity, citizenship, and social class articulated spatially in the postcolonial African metropolis over time? In this article, I examine the metamorp...

New article in @societyandspace.bsky.social "Contentious Plots: Staking durable claims to ethnic belonging in Nairobi": journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Renowned Human Rights Lawyer Pheroze Nowrojee Dies NAIROBI, Kenya, Apr 5 – Renowned human rights lawyer and Senior Counsel Pheroze Nowrojee has died, fellow lawyers have confirmed. MP and fellow lawyer Otiende Amolo expressed his sorrow in a post on X, saying:
“Quite saddened to learn that my senior, Senior Counsel Pheroze Nowrojee has passed on! A quintessential advocate who presented the best […]

Renowned Human Rights Lawyer Pheroze Nowrojee Dies

Text: ISA PEACE Best Global South Scholar Book Award Winner. Image: book cover of Master Plans & Minor Acts.

Congratulations to Shakirah E. Hudani on her book Master Plans and Minor Acts winning the ISA Peace Studies Section, Best Global South Scholar Book Award and being shortlisted for the ISA Global Development Studies Book Award. Learn more here: bit.ly/UCPEXAAG. #AAG2025

Check out my new review essay "Building the City from Below: Toward a Citizen-Centered City-Making": www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

It strikes me that the US is experiencing its own round of SAPs, and there lessons to be learnt from how SAPs devastated African countries.

US aid freeze: Nigeria and Kenya among nations running out of HIV drugs - WHO The warning comes as Africa begins to feel the impact of a massive review into US aid by Trump.

#Lesotho is one of 8 countries worldwide (6 in #Africa) that could soon run out of drugs used to treat those with #HIV because of #USAID destruction:

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Looking forward to this book forum organized by the Duke Africa Initiative on 26 Mar with @cgastrow.bsky.social and @shakirahh.bsky.social

New Online 1st Book Review “Kavukire? What place do the living and the dead occupy in contemporary Rwanda” by David Mwambari

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With global health and development in a state of crisis, how do we reimagine global health?

Please join us online for this genuinely diverse & inclusive course!

June 9 - 13, 2025

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Honored and thankful to be awarded the 2025 ISA Peace section Best Global South Scholar Book Award.
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Absolutely devastated by this news. Jim was one of my first anthropology teachers at Stanford. In his class on the history of anthropological thought, he taught me how to read carefully, insisting that I take the time to understand someone's argument in context before I reach for the easy critique.

An excerpt from the linked article, which reads: "If maritime metaphors grapple continuously with how to map Blackness’s trajectories—our relationships to space, the environment, our history, and each other—spacetime metaphors may be more interested in sensing and, thereby, elaborating new ways of knowing: they press on the ways we fail to adequately know and name the fullness of Blackness’s meanings, locations, enactments, and possibilities."

"What openings does spacetime provide that the maritime, perhaps, cannot as readily support?" — from our latest issue, read Petal Samuel's "Black Gravity, or a Hidden History of Empire" here: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...