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Obiozo Ukpabi
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Obiozo Ukpabi

  • Policy Dialogue Officer
2nd Floor, Main Hall
University of the Western Cape
Modderdam Road
Bellville

Cape Town
Phone: (021) 959-3763

Biography:

Obiozo Ukpabi joined PLAAS in July 2008 as part of the Connecting Research and Policy Making on Land, Fisheries and Poverty in South Africa programme. She will work with PLAAS researchers and key role players in the relevant sectors (researchers from other universities and research organizations, policy makers, practitioners, and civil society-based advocacy groups) to enable more fruitful engagement and encourage real dialogue between them. Obiozo holds an MA in Economic and Social History from the University of Amsterdam and an MPhil in Political Studies from UCT. She was a project manager for the African Studies Centre in Leiden and for a political and cultural centre called De Balie in Amsterdam (The Netherlands). She has also worked as a freelance journalist in Nigeria and The Netherlands.

Education:

  1. MA (Amsterdam)
  2. MPhil (UCT)
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Dynamics of social differentiation after land reform among former labour tenants in Besters, KwaZulu-Natal
This presentation, made at the 'New Researchers Workshop on Land and Agrarian Studies' on 27-28 October 2011 show how violence is woven into strategies of both survival and accumulation, as well as the many stories told about people in the area.
Money and sociality in South Africa's informal economy: Africa 82 (1) 2012: 131–49
This article examines the social dimensions of money in South Africa’s informal economy by considering the interplay of agency, culture and context.
Poverty and fisheries: Anything to learn from the Norwegian experience?
Norwegian development assistance has always been poverty oriented on paper, but with a weak understanding of strategies, entry points, interventions and the measuring of results. Norwegian input into fishing systems in developing countries have tended to use the same models applied in Norway.
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