African Studies Association Annual Meeting - Philadelphia Nov. 2022
I had the pleasure of presenting my paper "Decentralization in Mozambique: The Green Uprising" at the African Studies Association (ASA) annual conference in Philadelphia on November 17, 2022. This was the 65th annual meeting of the scholarly group dedicated to the study of Africa, particularly sub-Saharan Africa. ASA is a learned society of interdisciplenary scholars, many of whom are from Africa or have lived in Africa or have done significant fieldwork there. In previous years, this conference had gone virtual due to COVID, but in 2022 the conference was back in the in-person format. The audience for the panel "The Center Matters, but so Does the Periphery: Urban Governance and the Need for Rural Support" Austin Dziwornu Albo from the University of Ghana presented on "Private Urbanism and the Spatial Rationalities of Urban Governance" ASA was founded in 1967, a time of global protests against governments. To Americans, the 1960s anti-war protests an