Do Africa's Urban Poor Think of Pro-poor planning?

Speaker: Dr. Garth Myers
When: March 14, 2008 at 3:30pm
Where: Little Theatre, K-State Student Union

Dr. Myers is Director of the Kansas African Studies Center, one of the nine federally-funded National Resource Centers for Africa with Foreign Language Area Studies fellowship status.
He has written two books, Verandahs of Power: Colonialism and Space in Urban Africa and Disposable Cities: Garbage, Governance and Sustainable Development in Urban Africa, and he also co-edited a third book - with Martin J.Murray - Cities in Contemporary Africa. He has published forty book chapters and journal articles dealing with the geography of African development. He was Past President of the Mid-America Alliance for African Studies, co-editor of Historical Geography and Book Review Editor for Cultural Geographies. He teaches a variety of classes on African geography topics. His PhD in Geography came from UCLA in 1993, his MA in African Studies also from UCLA in 1986, and his BA in History
with Honors from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine in 1984.