Ben Page Editor

Ben Page is a lecturer at UCL. Much of his work has focused on water supply in West Africa as a way of linking different histories and places to broader development questions about communities, the state, infrastructure, services, participatory governance, deliberative democracy and the transformation of the landscape. Claire Mercer is a Lecturer in Geography at the University of Leicester, UK. Over the last ten years she has undertaken research in Tanzania and, more recently, Cameroon, and has published on the changing character and work of associational life (NGOs, hometown associations); geographies of governance with a focus on civil society and partnership. Martin Evans did his postgraduate studies in Geography at the School of Oriental and African Studies and King’s College London. Besides diasporas and development, his research examines the complex intersections of conflict, natural resources and livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa.