CAS Lecture Series: Emergency Thinking and Mozambique’s Revolution, 1975–1986

David Morton is associate professor of African History at the University of
British Columbia and the author of Age of Concrete: Housing and the Shape
of Aspiration in the Capital of Mozambique (Ohio, 2019). He writes about
decolonization and informal settlement, and his current work explores
ground-level governance during the first months of Mozambique’s
independence. He received his PhD at the University of Minnesota (’15) and
his BA at Yale (’97).