{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"Leonard Wantchekon on youth and governance in African cities","description":"This is an episode from VoxDev's new podcast series, Ideas in Development. This series has a separate podcast feed, where you can find every episode of Oliver Hanney and Kurtis Lockhart's conversations on cities.\n\nYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOPG6UmOHGU\nApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cities-of-opportunity-not-powder-kegs/id1866874059?i=1000766172534\nSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6BoYX7rfpjn86KndCxsnyd?si=53213815c1fd4408\nAudioboom: https://audioboom.com/posts/8899287-cities-of-opportunity-not-powder-kegs\nSubstack: https://ideasindevelopment.substack.com/p/cities-of-opportunity-not-powder\nVoxDev: https://voxdev.org/topic/institutions-political-economy/leonard-wantchekon-youth-governance-and-africas-urban-future\n\nAre African cities a powder keg of restless youth – or the most promising place to build prosperity, peaceful politics and shared civic life?\n\nLeonard Wantchekon joins Ideas in Development to argue that African cities should be seen as a youth opportunity, not a youth problem.\n\nWe discuss recent unrest in Kenya and Tanzania, his work showing that clientelism is overwhelmingly a rural phenomenon, and that deliberation and decentralisation are the institutional minimums African cities should be reaching for. Leonard then lays out what deliberation, decentralisation and a renewed urban culture could do for the next generation of African city dwellers.","author_name":"VoxDev Development Economics","author_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/4970774-voxdev-development-economics","provider_name":"Audioboom","provider_url":"https://audioboom.com","width":480,"height":95,"thumbnail_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/43635006/600x600/c","thumbnail_width":600,"thumbnail_height":600,"html":""}