Precarious Citizenship: Life on the Urban Margins of Lagos
Venue
In-person onlyLecture Theatre G.04, Hugh Robson Building
Description
The Centre of African Studies (CAS) is delighted to invite you to the following seminar:
Precarious Citizenship: Life on the Urban Margins of Lagos
Speaker: Professor Taibat Lawanson, Leverhulme Professor of Planning and Heritage, University of Liverpool.
When: Wednesday 26th February 2025 (3.30pm-5pm)
Where: Lecture Theatre G.04, Hugh Robson Building
Format: In-person only. Register via Eventbrite
This presentation explores how those on the urban margins – geographically and socially – negotiate belonging in Lagos, Nigeria’s largest city. Through a conceptual framework of alternative urbanisms and a series of life histories, the talk engages with themes around migration, spatial displacements and hybrid citizenships – and what this means for urban aspirations, social integration, governance, and access to resources.
Speaker Biography:
Taibat Lawanson is Leverhulme Professor of Planning and Heritage at the University of Liverpool. Previously, she was Professor of urban management and governance at the University of Lagos, Nigeria. Her research focuses on the interface of social complexities, urban poverty and the quest for spatial justice in Africa. She leads the newly established Urbanism and Coastal Heritage Lab at the Architecture Heritage and Urbanism of West Africa (AHUWA) Research Centre here at the University of Liverpool.