Biruk Terrefe
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Biruk Terrefe
@terrefebiruk.bsky.social
Lecturer & Researcher African Politics, @unibayreuth.bsky.social | Research Associate, African Studies Centre, University of Oxford

Politics, Statecraft, Infrastructure, Urbanisation, Conflict, Horn of Africa, Ethiopia, Red Sea
Calling all scholars in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, and other eligible countries! 🎓 The UTA-Do African Cities Summer School 2026 has 10 full scholarships available through the Wagon2Africa project. Apply! Deadline: Sept 30, 2025. @andretwp.bsky.social sites.google.com/view/uta-do/...
August 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
From Cape Town’s energy sovereignty, Beira’s post-disaster reconstruction, Nairobi’s institutional innovations & accelerated planning systems to start-up cultures in Kigali and violent beautification in Addis: What is it about cities that makes them sites of experimental statecraft? #ECAS2025
June 29, 2025 at 4:27 PM
'Ethiopia's Red Sea Politics: Corridors, Ports & Security in the Horn of Africa'

My latest research paper published by @rvinews.bsky.social & #XCEPT.

riftvalley.net/publication/...
March 31, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Our new OUP book on the politics, history and political economy of Ethiopia's dam-building program is out!

You can access your free pdf copy of the book at the bottom of this blogpost, which offers a succinct a summary of the book:

blog.gdi.manchester.ac.uk/dams-power-a...
November 27, 2024 at 5:20 PM
Friends, join @andretwp.bsky.social and me in Prague for our
#ECAS2025 panel:

“African Cities as testbeds: experimental statecraft in transition”

Submit your abstract here under the stream ‘Urban Studies:' guarant.eu/ecasconferen...
November 19, 2024 at 3:27 PM