Skip To Content

Africa

Mamuna Mohammed, a head load porter (kayayei), carries bananas through Agbogbloshie Market in Accra, Ghana

All posts in Africa

  • Journal Articles

    Accumulation by dispossession and the informal economy – Struggles over knowledge, being and waste at a Soweto garbage dumpEnvironment and Planning D: Society and Space

    Melanie Samson, former coordinator of WIEGO’s work with waste pickers in Africa,  recently published an article entitled “Accumulation...

    Read More
  • Research Reports

    Resumen de los resultados del estudio sobre las trabajadoras en empleo informal y el cuidado infantil en seis organizaciones con base de miembros de trabajadoras pobres

    Esta publicación es un resumen de “Nuestros niños no reciben la atención que merecen”: Una síntesis de los resultados de la investigación...

    Read More
  • Journal Articles

    Informal Economies and Urban Governance in Nigeria: Popular Empowerment or Political Exclusion?African Studies Review

    Abstract:

    Read More
  • Journal Articles

    The contested spatialities of transnational activism: gendered gatekeeping and gender struggles in an African association of informal workers

    Abstract:

    Read More
  • Journal Articles

    A Re-Examination of the Urban Informal Sector in West Africa

    Read More
  • Organizing Briefs

    Mapping of the Policy Context and Catadores Organizations in Maputo, Mozambique

     This brief is part of the WIEGO Publication Series. View list of all WIEGO briefs.

    Read More
  • Research Reports

    Salud y seguridad ocupacional para proveedores de servicios de catering indígena en Acra, Ghana

    en español

    Read More
  • Journal Articles

    Changes in Official Attitudes Towards Urban Agriculture in AccraAfrican Studies Quarterly

    Read More
  • Research Reports

    Executive Summary – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Street Vendors in Accra, Ghana

    Read More
  • Books & Book Chapters

    Social regionalism in the Southern Africa Development Community: The international, regional and national interplay of labour alternative dispute resolution mechanisms

    Abstract: The Southern African Development Community region (SADC) has seen a trend toward applying Alternative Dispute Settlement (ADR)...

    Read More