Voicing African Voices

Author

Tamuka Chekero

Tamuka Chekero holds a PhD from the University of Cape Town (2023). He has been a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria. He was a fellow at the World Bank Africa Fellowship (2020) within the Social Development Global Practice. He is also a three-time recipient of the Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Research Grant and has held an ARUA Research Fellowship for three consecutive years. Chekero will join the African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town, (2025) as a postdoctoral research fellow, contributing to the Wellcome Trust-funded “If Cities Could Speak” project.

African Studies Social Sciences

Resilient Social Networks and Mobility Strategies among Migrants in Cape Town

by Tamuka Chekero

How do migrants forge resilience in the face of exclusion and precarity in a global city? In “Resilient Social Networks and Mobility Strategies among Migrants…

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