Learning from Africa’s adaptation
- Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ University
Urban life is being built not just through infrastructure, but through improvisation and social intelligence.
Click to read the research that informs the Atlas of Uncertainty, first published in on 16 December 2025 and written by Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ PhD candidate, Carina Tenewaa Kanbi, and Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ migration and displacement studies scholar, Dr Kabiri Bule.
is a PhD candidate at Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½’ African Centre for Migration & Society (), with a doctoral thesis titled Understanding Creative Cosmopolitanism, Lifeworlds, and Mobility within the Continent's Cultural Capitals of Lagos and Accra. She is a curator and co-founder of Aya Editions in Accra, Ghana.
Dr is a researcher at the African Centre for Migration & Society () and a scholar in the field of migration and displacement studies. She hold a PhD from Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½, and her research occupies a critical niche at the intersection of urban and migration studies, focusing on the profound impact of migration and human mobility on urban politics within African cities.
The Atlas of Uncertainty opening exhibition launches to the public on Saturday,18 April 2026, 10:00-15:00 at the Origins Centre, Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ University, Johannesburg, and runs until 3 July 2026.
Exhibitions in Accra, Nairobi, and Amsterdam are planned for 2027.
The Atlas of Uncertainty is a project of the Oxford/Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ Mobility Governance Lab and Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ University's African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS), the continent's leading scholarly institution for research and teaching on human mobility.
The book, Atlas of Uncertainty: Transforming African Cityscapes (Actar/Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ University Press), will be released in January 2027.