Matteo Rizzo is a political economist who lives and works in London, where he is a senior lecturer across the Departments of Economics and Development Studies at SOAS, University of London, UK. He previously worked at the African Studies Centre, University of Oxford and at the Centre for African Studies, University of Cambridge. His work has been published by leading African studies and development studies journals, including the Journal of Development Studies, Development and Change, the Journal of Agrarian Change, African Affairs, the Journal of Modern African Studies and the Review of African Political Economy, of which he is also a member of the Editorial Working Group.

pushing forward much-needed critical debate by helping us rethink and reimagine alternative public transport futures for African cities, futures that should start with the lived realities and aspirations of the majority of citizens, including the poor and middle classes, who currently - for better or worse - rely fundamentally on these deeply rooted and complex minibus systems.

• 1: Taken for a Ride: Rethinking Neoliberalism, Precarious Labour and Public Transport from an African Metropolis 2: Public Transport in Dar es Salaam: From State Monopoly to Neoliberalism, 1970-2015 3: 'Life Is War': Capital and Informal Labour in Bus Public Transport 4: The Politics of Labour 1: The Quiescent Period (up to 1997) 5: The Politics of Labour 2: Struggling for Rights at Work 6: Tracing Occupational Mobility/Immobility among Informal Transport Workers 7: The New Face of Neoliberalism: The Bus Rapid Transport Project in Tanzania (2002-2016) 8: Conclusion: Taken for a Ride

Matteo Rizzo is a political economist who lives and works in London, where he is a senior lecturer across the Departments of Economics and Development Studies at SOAS, University of London, UK. He previously worked at the African Studies Centre, University of Oxford and at the Centre for African Studies, University of Cambridge. His work has been published by leading African studies and development studies journals, including the Journal of Development Studies, Development and Change, the Journal of Agrarian Change, African Affairs, the Journal of Modern African Studies and the Review of African Political Economy, of which he is also a member of the Editorial Working Group.

pushing forward much-needed critical debate by helping us rethink and reimagine alternative public transport futures for African cities, futures that should start with the lived realities and aspirations of the majority of citizens, including the poor and middle classes, who currently - for better or worse - rely fundamentally on these deeply rooted and complex minibus systems.

• 1: Taken for a Ride: Rethinking Neoliberalism, Precarious Labour and Public Transport from an African Metropolis 2: Public Transport in Dar es Salaam: From State Monopoly to Neoliberalism, 1970-2015 3: 'Life Is War': Capital and Informal Labour in Bus Public Transport 4: The Politics of Labour 1: The Quiescent Period (up to 1997) 5: The Politics of Labour 2: Struggling for Rights at Work 6: Tracing Occupational Mobility/Immobility among Informal Transport Workers 7: The New Face of Neoliberalism: The Bus Rapid Transport Project in Tanzania (2002-2016) 8: Conclusion: Taken for a Ride

Matteo Rizzo is a political economist who lives and works in London, where he is a senior lecturer across the Departments of Economics and Development Studies at SOAS, University of London, UK. He previously worked at the African Studies Centre, University of Oxford and at the Centre for African Studies, University of Cambridge. His work has been published by leading African studies and development studies journals, including the Journal of Development Studies, Development and Change, the Journal of Agrarian Change, African Affairs, the Journal of Modern African Studies and the Review of African Political Economy, of which he is also a member of the Editorial Working Group.

pushing forward much-needed critical debate by helping us rethink and reimagine alternative public transport futures for African cities, futures that should start with the lived realities and aspirations of the majority of citizens, including the poor and middle classes, who currently - for better or worse - rely fundamentally on these deeply rooted and complex minibus systems.

• 1: Taken for a Ride: Rethinking Neoliberalism, Precarious Labour and Public Transport from an African Metropolis 2: Public Transport in Dar es Salaam: From State Monopoly to Neoliberalism, 1970-2015 3: 'Life Is War': Capital and Informal Labour in Bus Public Transport 4: The Politics of Labour 1: The Quiescent Period (up to 1997) 5: The Politics of Labour 2: Struggling for Rights at Work 6: Tracing Occupational Mobility/Immobility among Informal Transport Workers 7: The New Face of Neoliberalism: The Bus Rapid Transport Project in Tanzania (2002-2016) 8: Conclusion: Taken for a Ride