

Divin-Luc Bikubanya
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@DivinLucBik
PhD Researcher & Teaching Assistant | @UAntwerpen, @IOBUA & @CegemiUCB | Extractive sector | (De)Industrialization | Supply Chains | Africa's Great Lakes Region









The term “data” has its roots in Latin. It's the plural of "datum," which means “gift” It makes sense to see data as a gift that participants give us that we should handle ethically and with respect.

Charles Onyango Obbo @cobbo3 kindly wrote about the Nasser Road publication - "Nasser Road may be Uganda's most honest street because it admits that life here is often a performance staged for survival" @YusufSerunkuma @Katumbabadru1




Great bit of mining history here combining legal, engineering and social history to explain the 2022 Jagersfontein tailings dam. Decisions taken by De Beers, the courts, local and national government resulted in a disaster that was entirely avoidable: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…












🚨 Now advertising 2x Postdocs (4 year positions) for our ERC Project POPGOV @Kingspol_econ. A third to be advertised in 2027. These ones are on popular government in the Global South bit.ly/4c3SuhA