Episode 91 – Causes and consequences of incessant flooding in African cities
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Dr. Michael Nwankpa discusses about the Causes and consequences of incessant flooding in African cities with Professor Taibat Lawanson.
Taibat Lawanson is Leverhulme Professor of Planning and Heritage at the University of Liverpool. She is also Professor of Management and Governance at the University of Lagos, Nigeria where she was co-director at the University of Lagos Centre for Housing and Sustainable Development. She holds a PhD in Urban and Regional Planning from the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria.
Her research focuses on the interface of social complexities, urban realities and the quest for spatial justice. She is interested in how formal and informal systems can synthesize in African cities, and written or co-authored over 80 articles in academic and popular platforms. Taibat is a proud alumnus of the prestigious Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Academic Residency and is a pioneer World Social Science Fellow of the International (Social) Science Council.
About the Podcast
The Conflict & Development in Africa podcast brings experts from Africa and the world as guests to discuss critical conflict and development issues that affect Africa. Our guests include practitioners, academics, journalists, researchers, policy makers and advocates that are renowned and are nationally and internationally recognized for their work, expertise and contribution to conflict and development issues in Africa. Our audience includes policy makers, governments, researchers, students, businesses and anyone that is interested in conflict and development issues in Africa.
About the Host
Dr Michael Nwankpa has an extensive experience spanning over a decade studying, researching, writing and consulting on conflict and development issues in Africa.
Michael Nwankpa has a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Roehampton, London, UK. He has held several research fellowships including as a Rice University Fellow and a terrorism research Fellow (past) at the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Response to Terrorism (START), University of Maryland. He is currently a fellow at the Royal United Service Institute for Defense and Security Studies (RUSI) and a research fellow at the Geneva-based Centre on Armed Groups. Dr. Nwankpa has extensive experience studying counterterrorism and counterinsurgency strategies, advising relevant government development departments and security agencies, and consulting for multilateral organizations. Michael is the author of Nigeria’s Fourth Republic, 1999-2021: A Militarized Democracy (Routledge 2022) and co-author of the seminal work on Boko Haram, The Boko Haram Reader: From Nigerian Preachers to the Islamic State (Oxford University Press/Hurst 2018). He has written several articles and is currently working on three book projects.