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3rd AUM Workshop: Historical and Scalar Dimensions of Contemporary Mobility Practices in Urban Africa

2-4 November 2022

Humanities Graduate Centre Seminar Room,
Southwest Engineering Building
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa

Participants can also join online using zoom links (see below)

This is the third workshop of the AUM network. The inaugural workshop of the network took place 4-6 November 2020: in the context of the raging COVID-19 pandemic, online.  There, about twenty papers were presented and initial discussions were held about network development. The second workshop took place from 9-10 November 2021 – also online. There, papers that have been selected for consideration in a special issue of the journal Urban Forum, were presented.  The third workshop further consolidates these conversations and networking processes. The overall focus of the workshop is to examine contemporary urban mobility questions in Africa from a historical and intra-African perspective.

Workshop programme and registration

2 November
Time Item Speaker

09h00-09h30

Welcome

Professor Lynn Morris, Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Research and Innovation – University of the Witwatersrand

Professor Noor Nieftagodien, Head, Wits History Workshop and NRF Chair on Local Histories, Present Realities, University of the Witwatersrand.

Workshop overview and housekeeping

Yusuf Madugu, Njogu Morgan

Zoom session registration link: https://wits-za.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwkf-ypqjwvH9EaDUEsPWWuL--QMy9lGc2i

Theme: Cycling Cities: The African Experience

Time Item Speaker

09h30-11h00

Spatial and Temporal change of cycling demand in Maputo, Mozambique

Classio Joao Mendiate and Eduardo Pelembe

A historical investigation into the development of cycling and related infrastructure in Pinelands and Langa in cape town between 1948 and 2022.

Marianne Vanderschuren, Siddique Motala and Junaid Bernes

Zoom session registration link: https://wits-za.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwkdOivqjsvEtYEyTdM1o2pD9t3T99yiPSb

11h00-11h15 – Break

Theme: Cycling Cities: The African Experience

Time Item Speaker

11h15-12h45

Cycling Leading The Way

Emmanuel Kamuna and Chris Chirwa

A History of Everyday Cycling Life in Zomba: Bicycle Transport and Repair Workshops Along the Road

David Drengk (Online)

Zoom session registration link: https://wits-za.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0pfuyqqzoqH9DOgTz315vMx3k82JbmtLAM

12h45-13h45 – Lunch

Theme: Cycling Cities: The African Experience

Time Item Speaker

13h45-15h15

Socio-genesis and dissemination of urban cycling in Douala

Salifou Ndam

Rise and fall of bicycle transport in Bamako, Mali

Issa Fofana and Issa Togola

Zoom session registration link: https://wits-za.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEpdu-sqjIqG9HjqkdDuq3AUh10cyWi5KZt

15h15-15h30 – Break

Theme: Mobility Histories for Mobile Urban Futures: Planning “African” Mobility Systems

Time Item Speaker

15h30-17h30

Cities after War: The Post-Civil War Reconstruction in Nigeria and the Sociality of Transportations in Onitsha Urban City

Mathias Chukwudi Isiani (Online)

The Tudu Lorry Park/Bus Stop And The Production Of Mobility Histories In Accra’s Urban Space.

Samuel Ntewusu (Online)

Expanding Urbanisation: Possibilities for Nomadic Urbanity in the Future of Afrourbanisation

Samson Faboye

Zoom session registration link: https://wits-za.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUrd-CvrTMqHNTl3ujptQ2AiHan6xXzQuLh

19h00 – Workshop Dinner

3 November

Theme: Imagining Urban Mobility Future From The Past: Temporal Contextualizing And Conceptualizing Urban Commuter Behaviours And Mobility Practices In African Cities

Time Item Speaker

09h00-10h30

Imagining Urban Mobility Future From The Past: Temporal Contextualizing and Conceptualizing Urban Commuter Behaviors and Mobility Practices in African Cities

Justus Aungo Bwonderi

Legalizing Urban Commuter Behaviour: The Historical Development in Urban Traffic Laws and Mobility Regulations in Kenya

Silvia Katu

Zoom session registration link:https://wits-za.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIlcu6orDguHdRKiX8lxGXjgPBnonc4AvaU

10h30-10h45

Theme: Cycling Cities:The African Experience

Time Item Speaker

09h00-10h30

Cycling Cities: The African Experience. The Case study of Cairo

Nourhan Sherif, Jose Manuel Pages Madrigal, Hassan Mohamed, Ahmed Hussin, Khalil, Carine Khaled Farid, Ranya Ayman

Machakos, Kenya

Naomi Mwaura

Zoom session registration link: https://wits-za.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMrcOitrzsvHtOwCtekx3vsje-oJ1Cnsmwq

12h15-Depart for Excursion into Johannesburg*

  • Participants will conduct a social and transport history tour of Johannesburg. The main destination is the James Hall Transport Museum
Time Item

19h00-20h30

Meeting of Workshop Panels to Agree on next steps after workshop

 

4 November

Theme: Imagining Urban Mobility Future From The Past: Temporal Contextualizing And Conceptualizing Urban Commuter Behaviours And Mobility Practices In African Cities and Gender And Mobility In Nairobi: A Journey From Colonialism To Post-Colonialism

Time Item Speaker

09h00-10h30

Sounding And Visualising The Arts Of Cycling And Walking Mobilities In Lagos City Nigeria 1950-2021

Olusegun Stephen Titus and Deborah Temisan Lawal

Gender And Mobility In Nairobi: A Journey From Colonialism To Post-Colonialism

Gladys Nyachieo, Janet Mangera, Justus Aungo

Zoom session registration link: https://wits-za.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcvdu-qqD0sGtZy9071IfWDU7NK-Az0l7Pp

10h30-10h45 - Break

Theme: Next Steps following 3rd AUM Workshop

Time Item Speaker

10h45-12h15

Next steps per themed panels

Panel Conveners

Future Collaborations in AUM network

All

Zoom session registration link: https://wits-za.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUtdeuhrT4oH9x8uNWBrbMt1v4AdZYKv2eH

Lunch and participants depart

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