Interview to Dr. Wangui Kimari- American University Nairobi
June 30, 2025
Interview with Dr. Wangui Kimari, American University Nairobi at the Institute for Urban Research, Malmö University. Interviewer: Dr. Mateo Villamil-Valencia. 13 February 2025. Nordic Network of Global South Urbanisms (NEGSU).
Questions
• How do you understand the urban?
• What anti-colonial theories are useful to theorize the urban?
• How can Indigenous practices inform our understanding of the city and urbanization?
• Considering the ubiquity of technology, what aspects of the type of urbanity familiar to you reveal distinctive ways of understanding and inhabiting cities?
• How do we navigate the challenges and limitations of using global South approaches in the North?
• How can we think or exist from the “ontological margin”?