Emma Lochery
Emma Lochery is a political scientist researching business, citizenship, mobility and migration. She has written about the history of Somalis in Kenya and researched life trajectories of African traders in China. Her doctoral work at the University of Oxford examined the politics of service provision, market-making and state formation in Somaliland. She is now a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Liège, Belgium, studying the politics of employment in Zambia's mining sector.
Rewiring the city

Rewiring the city

How informal energy initiatives in the Somali city of Hargeisa are lighting up a once-dark city The southern periphery of Somaliland’s capital, Hargeisa, is a line of hills offering a panoramic view of the expanding city. One evening in 2014, the owner of an...

Emma Lochery
Emma Lochery is a political scientist researching business, citizenship, mobility and migration. She has written about the history of Somalis in Kenya and researched life trajectories of African traders in China. Her doctoral work at the University of Oxford examined the politics of service provision, market-making and state formation in Somaliland. She is now a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Liège, Belgium, studying the politics of employment in Zambia's mining sector.
Rewiring the city

Rewiring the city

How informal energy initiatives in the Somali city of Hargeisa are lighting up a once-dark city The southern periphery of Somaliland’s capital, Hargeisa, is a line of hills offering a panoramic view of the expanding city. One evening in 2014, the owner of an...