https://simplecast.com CERTIZENS Africa Podcast This is the podcast of the Certifications of Citizenship in Africa (CERTIZENS) project, which considers how politics, policy and practice relating to citizen classification, certification and identification shape both citizens and states in selected African contexts. en Mon, 16 May 2022 11:37:05 +0000 Wed, 4 Mar 2026 21:30:11 +0000 https://certizens-africa-podcast.simplecast.com CERTIZENS Africa Podcast https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/9da0ba6b-fe43-42fb-a0a3-509300137905/050df124-28b6-4f11-9c4f-625232ae61a0/3000x3000/3000x3000px-certizens-africa-black.jpg?aid=rss_feed https://certizens-africa-podcast.simplecast.com episodic This is the podcast of the Certifications of Citizenship in Africa (CERTIZENS) project, which considers how politics, policy and practice relating to citizen classification, certification and identification shape both citizens and states in selected African contexts. Amanda Hammar, Alice Troy-Donovan false https://feeds.simplecast.com/od_hS74I africa, policy, politics CERTIZENS Africa research project at the Centre of African Studies, University of Copenhagen medieteam@adm.ku.dk 105426ea-1a59-40c7-94f1-fc28af4c78c8 Professor Amanda Hammar: Introducing CERTIZENS More about Amanda Hammar: Academic profile

More about the CERTIZENS project: https://teol.ku.dk/english/dept/certizens-certifications-of-citizenship-in-africa/

Amanda Hammar’s research on urban displacement in Zimbabwe: 

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/african-studies-review/article/urban-displacement-and-resettlement-in-zimbabwe-the-paradoxes-of-propertied-citizenship/5102079C9BBF45F81B3487AC3E75C3B5

UN definition of legal identity: https://unstats.un.org/legal-identity-agenda/

World Bank ID4D programme: https://id4africa.com

James Scott’s concept of “legibility” is elaborated on in his book Seeing Like a State: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300078152/seeing-like-a-state/

More information on the new national ID for Ghana, the GhanaCard: 

https://nia.gov.gh/the-ghanacard-introduction/

https://www.biometricupdate.com/202202/difficulties-in-registration-for-ghanas-digital-id-worries-lawmakers

 

If you have comments, suggestions or would like to be part of a future CERTIZENS podcast, write to us at certizens@teol.ku.dk


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]]> Mon, 16 May 2022 11:37:05 +0000 medieteam@adm.ku.dk (Amanda Hammar, Alice Troy-Donovan) https://certizens-africa-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes/professor-amanda-hammar-introducing-certizens-nOppU003 More about Amanda Hammar: Academic profile

More about the CERTIZENS project: https://teol.ku.dk/english/dept/certizens-certifications-of-citizenship-in-africa/

Amanda Hammar’s research on urban displacement in Zimbabwe: 

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/african-studies-review/article/urban-displacement-and-resettlement-in-zimbabwe-the-paradoxes-of-propertied-citizenship/5102079C9BBF45F81B3487AC3E75C3B5

UN definition of legal identity: https://unstats.un.org/legal-identity-agenda/

World Bank ID4D programme: https://id4africa.com

James Scott’s concept of “legibility” is elaborated on in his book Seeing Like a State: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300078152/seeing-like-a-state/

More information on the new national ID for Ghana, the GhanaCard: 

https://nia.gov.gh/the-ghanacard-introduction/

https://www.biometricupdate.com/202202/difficulties-in-registration-for-ghanas-digital-id-worries-lawmakers

 

If you have comments, suggestions or would like to be part of a future CERTIZENS podcast, write to us at certizens@teol.ku.dk


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]]> Professor Amanda Hammar: Introducing CERTIZENS Amanda Hammar, Alice Troy-Donovan 00:24:18 Professor Amanda Hammar introduces the CERTIZENS Africa project and podcast, in conversation with Alice Troy-Donovan. What is at stake in how identification systems are used to shape citizens and states, both in Africa and across the globe? Professor Amanda Hammar introduces the CERTIZENS Africa project and podcast, in conversation with Alice Troy-Donovan. What is at stake in how identification systems are used to shape citizens and states, both in Africa and across the globe? id documents, id systems, biometrics, identity, uganda, digital identity, ghana, sdg 16.9 false full 1 7a9eeb98-a60b-4152-beb6-211571d58bf5 Dr Bronwen Manby: Identification in Africa More about Bronwen Manby: Academic profile

 

Links to academic works cited:

Keith Breckenridge and Simon Szreter, Registration and Recognition: Documenting the Person in World History

Keith Breckenridge, Biometric State

Robtel Pailey, Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa

 

Other scholars mentioned:

Peter Ekeh, Mahmood Mamdani, Stephen Ndegwa, Peter Geschiere, Jean Francois Bayart, Francis Nyamnjoh, Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja, Crawford Young, George and Gloria Bob-Milliar

 

If you have comments, suggestions or would like to be part of a future CERTIZENS podcast, write to us at certizens@teol.ku.dk

 


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]]> Mon, 16 May 2022 11:36:51 +0000 medieteam@adm.ku.dk (Dr Bronwen Manby) https://certizens-africa-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes/dr-bronwen-manby-identification-in-africa-ox_zwAWu More about Bronwen Manby: Academic profile

 

Links to academic works cited:

Keith Breckenridge and Simon Szreter, Registration and Recognition: Documenting the Person in World History

Keith Breckenridge, Biometric State

Robtel Pailey, Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa

 

Other scholars mentioned:

Peter Ekeh, Mahmood Mamdani, Stephen Ndegwa, Peter Geschiere, Jean Francois Bayart, Francis Nyamnjoh, Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja, Crawford Young, George and Gloria Bob-Milliar

 

If you have comments, suggestions or would like to be part of a future CERTIZENS podcast, write to us at certizens@teol.ku.dk

 


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]]> Dr Bronwen Manby: Identification in Africa Dr Bronwen Manby 00:24:55 Dr Bronwen Manby (LSE Senior Policy Fellow and CERTIZENS Scientific Advisory Board member) discusses the key themes and concerns of the CERTIZENS project. Why is CERTIZENS important in the current moment? How does the project fit into the existing literature and thinking on identification globally? And what is particular about certifications of citizens in the African context? Dr Bronwen Manby (LSE Senior Policy Fellow and CERTIZENS Scientific Advisory Board member) discusses the key themes and concerns of the CERTIZENS project. Why is CERTIZENS important in the current moment? How does the project fit into the existing literature and thinking on identification globally? And what is particular about certifications of citizens in the African context? false full 2