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Examining similarity indicators in six planned capital cities from Africa and Asia: a qualitative research technique." City, Territory and Architecture 9, no. 1 (2022).
"Hypochondria as a form factor: The role of colonial anxieties as shapers of buildings and urban spaces in British Africa." Planning Perspectives 37, no. 1 (2022): 103-126.
"Designing for Cultural Revival: African Housing in Perspective." Space and Culture 24, no. 4 (2021): 617-634.
"Disaggregating Development: A Critical Analysis of Sino-African Megaprojects." Progress in Development Studies 21, no. 1 (2021): 86-104.
"‘Much better than earlier’: dam-building in Uganda and understanding development through the past." Journal of Eastern African Studies 15, no. 3 (2021): 400-420.
"Urban statecraft: The governance of transport infrastructures in African cities." Urban Studies, no. 004209802110281 (2021).
"Architecture of “Stadium diplomacy” - China-aid sport buildings in Africa." Habitat International 90 (2019): 101985.
"Beta Samati: discovery and excavation of an Aksumite town." Antiquity 93, no. 372 (2019): 1534-1552.
"Building Africa’s Infrastructure: Reinstating History in Infrastructure Debates." Forum for Development Studies 46, no. 3 (2019): 473-499.
"Chiefs in the city: Traditional authority in the modern state." Sociology 53 (2019): 707-723.
"‘Does Africa not deserve shiny new cities?’ The power of seductive rhetoric around new cities in Africa." Urban Studies 56 (2019): 2391-2407.
"Mining towns, enclaves and spaces: A genealogy of worker camps in the Congolese copperbelt." Geoforum 98 (2019): 88-96.
"Spatial challenges in contemporary African New Towns and potentials for alternative planning strategies." International Planning Studies 24, no. 3-4 (2019): 218-234.
"Toward archaeological predictive modeling in the Bosutswe region of Botswana: Utilizing multispectral satellite imagery to conceptualize ancient landscapes." Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 54 (2019): 68-83.
"‘A town new and modern in conception’: non-racial dreams and racial realities in the making of Gaborone, Botswana." Social Identities 25 (2019): 41-57.
"Africa’s new cities: The contested future of urbanisation." Urban Studies 55 (2018): 1223-41.
"The Architecture of Nation-building in Africa as a Development Aid Project: Designing the capital cities of Kinshasa (Congo) and Dodoma (Tanzania) in the post-independence years." Progress in Planning 122 (2018): 1-28.
"Forging networks and mixing ores: Rethinking the social landscapes of iron metallurgy." Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 49 (2018): 88-99.
"Maisons Tropicales/Maisons Coloniales: contesting technologies of authenticity and value in Niamey, Brazzaville, Paris, New York and Venice." International Journal of Heritage Studies 24 (2018): 100-83.
"A monumental cemetery built by eastern Africa’s first herders near Lake Turkana, Kenya." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115, no. 36 (2018): 8942-8947.
"The liminality of open space and rhythms of the everyday in Jallah Town, Monrovia, Liberia." Urban Studies 54, no. 10 (2017): 2360-2375.
"A topolographical approach to infrastructure: Political topography, topology and the port of Dar es Salaam." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 35, no. 6 (2017): 1076-1095.
"The Unseeing State: How Ideals of Modernity Have Undermined Innovation in Africa's Urban Water Systems." NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin 10 (2017): 481-510 ,.
"Animal performativity: Exploring the lives of donkeys in Botswana." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 33, no. 6 (2015): 1098-1117.
"An OLS analysis of the impact of colonialism on inter-country differentials in slum incidence in Africa." Cities 44 (2015): 104-111.
"Design Advice for the African Home: Translating “Colonial Style,” 1945–1962." Interiors 5 (2014): 179-197.
"Empire Building In Architecture since 1400. University of Minnesota Press, 2014.
An Indian Model of Aid: Rethinking Policy Perspectives." Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 157 (2014): 196-202.
"Public things, excremental politics, and the infrastructure of bare life in Ghana's city of Tema." American Ethnologist 41, no. 1 (2014): 92-109.
"Sultans' Paradise: The Royal Necropolis of Shāla, Rabat." Al-Masāq 26, no. 2 (2014): 132-146.
"Vital Infrastructures of Trash in Dakar." Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 34 (2014): 532-548.
"‘The Chinese just come and do it’: China in Africa and the prospects for development planning." International Development Planning Review 35, no. 3 (2013): v - xii.
"Making the African City. Dakar, Dar es Salaam, Kinshasa, 1920–1980." ABE Journal 3 (2013).
"Civilising African Cities: International Housing and Urban Policy from Colonial to Neoliberal Times." Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 6 (2012): 23-40.
"The first spectroscopic analysis of Ethiopian prehistoric rock painting." Journal of Raman Spectroscopy 43, no. 6 (2012): 809-816.
"Forbidden waters: colonial intervention and the evolution of water supply in Benin City, Nigeria." Water History 4, no. 3 (2012): 215-229.
"Re-placing imperial landscapes: colonial monuments and the transition to independence in Kenya." Journal of Historical Geography 38, no. 1 (2012): 45-56.
"Sachet drinking water in Ghana's Accra-Tema metropolitan area: past, present, and future." Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development 2, no. 4 (2012): 1-24.
"Between Fixity and Fantasy: Assessing the Spatial Impact of Colonial Urban Dualism." Journal of Urban History 37, no. 2 (2011): 208-229.
"Future Urban Growth and Archaeological Heritage Management: Some Implications for Research Activity in Africa." Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites 13, no. 2-3: Sub-Saharan Africa (2011): 134-159.
"The impact of colonization on access to improved water and sanitation facilities in African cities." Cities 28, no. 5 (2011): 452-460.
"Expatriate everyday life in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: colonial origins and contemporary legacies." Social & Cultural Geography 11, no. 4 (2010): 327-342.
"Modelling informal urban growth under rapid urbanisation: A CA-based land-use simulation model for the city of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania." PhD Thesis. TU Dortmund University, 2010.
"Challenges in Land Tenure and Land Reform in Africa: Anthropological Contributions." World Development 37, no. 8 (2009): 1317-1325.
"Part of the Disease Or Part of the Cure? Chinese Investments in the Zambian Mining and Construction Sectors." The European Journal of Development Research 21, no. 4 (2009): 644-61.
"Urban Transformation and Social Change in a Libyan City: An Anthropological Study of Tripoli. Maynooth: National University of Ireland, 2008.
Designing power: forms and purposes of colonial model neighborhoods in British Africa." Habitat International 27 (2003): 193-204.
"Towards a critical political geography of African development." Geoforum 34 (2003): 419-436.
"Beyond the belly of the house: Space and power around the Mandara Mountains." Journal of Social Archaeology 2, no. 2 (2002): 197-219.
"Foreign countries: The development of ethnoarchaeology in sub-Saharan Africa." Journal of World Prehistory 10, no. 3 (1996): 243-304.
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