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Laura Nkula-Wenz
Laura Nkula-Wenz is a lecturer and student affairs coordinator for the MA in Critical Urbanisms, a joint program between the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town and the University of Basel, Switzerland. Laura is an urban geographer with a keen interest in postcolonial urban theory, African urbanism and public culture. Her research focuses on the transformation of urban governance and the construction of local political agency, on questions of urban experimentation and knowledge networks, as well as the nexus of cultural production and urban change. She holds a Ph.D. in geography from the University of Münster/Germany, where she also completed a degree in human geography, communication studies and political science. Laura publishes in both English and German, and her work has appeared in Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement (2012), sub\urban: Zeitschrift für kritische Stadtforschung (2015) and Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space (2018), as well as several edited books.