Awards

• Short-listed for Canadian Historical Association/Société historique du Canada Wallace K. Ferguson Prize 2021
• Winner of African Studies Association Bethwell A. Ogot Prize 2020

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“Morton’s argument, delivered with passion and power, gives life to a nuanced, deeply personal understanding of how ordinary residents of disadvantaged urban communities not only make their neighborhoods—they reframe the everyday political order. The stories he tells resonate across the continent.” -- Garth Myers, author of African Cities: Alternative Visions of Urban Theory and Practice

Morton's argument, delivered with passion and power, gives life to a nuanced, deeply personal understanding of how ordinary residents of disadvantaged urban communities not only make their neighborhoods-they reframe the everyday political order. The stories he tells resonate across the continent. -- Garth Myers, author of African Cities: Alternative Visions of Urban Theory and Practice

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David Morton is assistant professor of African history at the University of British Columbia. As a journalist prior to his academic career, he wrote for publications such as Architectural Record, the New Republic, and Foreign Policy, and in Mozambique contributed to IRIN, the humanitarian news service.

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