online access Nairobi Durabilities in the age of disruption This essay engages with the theme of infrastructural disruption from the perspective of a French deep-sea cable-repair ship (flying under a flag of convenience) docked in Cape Town’s harbor. This vessel sails both the Atlantic and Indian coasts of Africa to fix malfunctions and ruptures in … Read moreDurabilities in the age of disruption
online access Nairobi Coastal encounters with electrical hybridity: Karpowership in Africa’s energy transition Karpowership’s large floating vessels provide electricity to millions of people in Africa’s coastal urban centers. Both the technology choice and the business practices of the family-run company are controversial. Not only do the ships use highly polluting heavy fuels, but there are … Read moreCoastal encounters with electrical hybridity: Karpowership in Africa’s energy transition
online access Nairobi Fintech ‘frontiers’ and the platformed motorcycle: Emergent infrastructures of value creation in African cities Concerned with financialized extraction, the exploitation of precarious workers and racialized violence, critical scholars call for greater attention to the coloniality of financial technology (fintech) expansion in Africa. In this article, we echo the utility in foregrounding coloniality, … Read moreFintech ‘frontiers’ and the platformed motorcycle: Emergent infrastructures of value creation in African cities