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SUMMARY:Eye on Africa with Anne Pitcher: No Place Like Home: The Politics of Urban Residential Development i
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 About the Speaker\n
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 	Anne Pitcher is a professor 
 of African studies and political science 
 and a faculty associate in the Center for Political 
 Studies, Institute for Social Research 
 at the University of Michigan.  She also serves 
 as President of the African Studies Association. 
  Her research focuses on urban politics, 
 party systems and service delivery especially 
 in Angola, Mozambique, Kenya and South Africa. 
 Pitcher has authored several books and 
 numerous articles on the political economy of 
 African countries. Her last book, "Party Politics 
 and Economic Reform in Africa's Democracies" 
 (Cambridge, 2012) won Honorable Mention 
 for best book award from the African Politics 
 Conference Group, an organized section of 
 the American Political Science Association and 
 the African Studies Association. Currently, 
 she is a co-editor with Kelly Askew of African 
 Perspectives, a book series at the University 
 of Michigan Press.\n
 530\n
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 Price: Free\n
 Sponsor: African Studies Center\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: http://africa.isp.msu.edu/\n
 Contact name: Ann Biersteker\n
 Contact phone: 517-353-1700\n
 Contact email: bierstek@msu.edu\n
LOCATION:Room 201, International Center
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