Mwangi Mwaura is MSc Student in the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford. His interests are on urban infrastructures, hustle economies and southern urbanism. He has published on various urban aspects including on the Configuration of Mobile Telephony, Survival as an Urban Way of Life and Demolition Colonialism in Nairobi.

Mary Lawhon is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Edinburgh. She is a political ecologist working on waste and sanitation infrastructure in African cities. She has published conceptual and empirical work on theorizing from the Global South, politicizing infrastructure and deepening understandings of contestations associated with sustainability transitions, including as two books: Enough! A Modest Political Ecology for an Uncertain Future and Making Urban Theory: Learning and Unlearning through Southern Cities.