Sea-ing Africa: Tracing legacies and engaging future promises of 'Big' infrastructure projects in port city regions in Ghana and Morocco

With a focus on Ghana and Morocco, the project ‘Sea-ing Africa’ investigates the prominent place of infrastructure in the thinking about development in Africa. Infrastructure projects such as ports, highways and railways are intertwined with geopolitics, economic systems, political interests and cultural values that affect citizens. What are the relationships between large-scale processes of project planning and the local circumstances in which infrastructures are put in place? What is the societal impact of infrastructure as physical structure, design intervention and future making project? This project is led by the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, in collaboration with the African Studies Centre Leiden, Delft University, NIMAR, Université Mohammed 5 in Rabat, the University of Ghana, and the University of Mines and Technology in Takoradi. Mayke Kaag serves as the contact person for the ASCL.

For more information, see the Leiden University project page.