We seek to elicit more voices in framing and debating climate emergencies in Africa, including from activists and scholars who don’t work in the field. There is an urgent need to localise and decolonise our experiences of climate emergencies in both theory and practice. For the next generation of African urban scholars, it is important for us to work towards co-creating imaginations to stem — and theorise — the many interrelated challenges that continue to make our cities and scholarship unequal. 

Nairobi is a timely location for this conversation: It is the site for not one but three international climate conferences the following week (Africa Climate Summit, Africa Climate Week, and GCF Private Investment for Climate Conference) in the lead-up to COP28 in Dubai. 

Join us

We invite grassroots activists, practitioners, students and academics (in particular, early career scholars) to participate in this one-day event. The conversation will center around what we need to change in climate emergency discussions so that they may reflect our urban realities. 

While our speakers are established academics and practitioners, we encourage early-career scholars from across East Africa to participate in this event. We seek to support co-learning, co-mentoring and network building to encourage democratic access to diverse urban studies platforms. 

Register here by 31st July.