26. COMPARATIVE LEARNING THROUGH COMMUNITY EXCHANGE: A conversation with Jack Makau and Temilade Sesan
From Urban Radar by Tom Goodfellow and Beth Perry
May 8, 2026 · 1h 4m · Season 2 · Episode 26
About this episode
The episode explores how urban communities in informal settlements can empower themselves through knowledge and data collection, featuring insights from Jack Makau and Temilade Sesan.
In this episode - recorded on location in Kampala, Uganda during an African Cities Research Consortium (ACRC) workshop in late April - we delve into questions of how urban communities in informal settlements can build power through their own forms of knowledge and data collection, and how two-way exchanges between cities can strengthen this process. For the main discussion, Tom was there in person with two of the research programme’s ‘City Manager’s - Jack Makau (City Manager for Nairob...
People in this episode
Host: Tom Goodfellow
Guests: Jack Makau, Temilade Sesan
Topics covered
- urban communities
- informal settlements
- knowledge exchange
- data collection
- community power
Keywords
- urban communities
- informal settlements
- knowledge
- data collection
- community power
- Kampala
- Nairobi
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: African Cities Research Consortium
Places: Kampala, Nairobi
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