Braima Koroma
Biographic Data
| ID | 4464744 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Braima Koroma |
| GIVEN NAMES | Braima |
| FAMILY NAME | Koroma |
| SIGNATURE | KOROMA B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sierra Leone Urban Research Centre |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4829-8032 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Intersectional experiences of non-communicable diseases and health seeking strategies in informal settlements in Freetown, Sierra Leone
This paper takes an intersectional approach to explore the burdens of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and their interactions with gendered inequities and poverty, in shaping health seeking practices. The study explores the lived experiences of men and women living with NCDs in three informal settlements in Freetown, Sierra Leone. As Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) grapple with increased NCD risk factors, evidence gaps limit understandin…
Intersectional inequalities in healthcare utilisation in informal settlements in Freetown, Sierra Leone: A multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy (Maihda)
Introduction Residents of informal settlements face significant intersectional inequalities, due to the overlapping and compounding effects of multiple social factors. This study aims to explore how these intersecting social factors, identified by community members, combine to shape household-level inequalities healthcare utilisation (HU) among residents of informal settlements in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Methods This study employed participatory …
The politics of informal settlements in African cities: Comparative insights from Accra, Freetown, Harare and Kampala
Many of the development challenges represented by informal settlements in global South cities – where most low-income urban residents live – are profoundly political in nature, involving entrenched interests, the interplay of competitive and patronage politics and the constrained political agency of low-income urban residents. However, and despite the growing literature on the politics of democratisation, clientelism and ethnicity in African citi…
The Economic Burden of Healthcare Utilization: Findings from a Health and Well-Being Survey in Informal Settlements of Freetown, Sierra Leone
Barriers to transition towards sustainable mobility in Sub-Saharan African cities: The case of Maputo and Freetown
This paper explores the extent to which growing cities in Sub-Saharan Africa can accelerate and leapfrog their urban development processes to avoid unsustainable car-dependent developments and instead pursue alternative sustainable mobility transitions. Taking Maputo, Mozambique, and Freetown, Sierra Leone, as case study cities, the paper aims to identify the most common structural issues underpinning transport and land-use that hinder these citi…
Accessibility, (dis)advantage and everyday mobility practices and experiences: The cases of Maputo and Freetown
This paper deconstructs everyday mobility practices from a perspective of accessibility and social and transport (dis)advantage in two capital port cities in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) – Freetown, Sierra Leone and Maputo, Mozambique. The paper proposes a novel framework that interprets social and transport (dis)advantage conditions as critical drivers of mobility behaviours and the resulting (in)accessibility that circumscribes individuals’ experie…
Sustaining Community-Based Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic: Learning Platforms at Work in Freetown, Sierra Leone
In Freetown, Sierra Leone, despite the progress in the official response to the COVID-19 outbreak, there remain concerns about the limited involvement of local communities and the use of bottom-up participatory approaches in the response. While the official response has been characterised by restrictive public health measures such as partial lockdowns and the declaration of a state of a public health emergency, for the urban poor, the implication…
“Emancipatory Circuits of Knowledge” for Urban Equality: Experiences From Havana, Freetown, and Asia
Feminist, Southern, and decolonial thinkers have long argued that epistemological questions about how knowledge is produced and whose knowledge is valued and actioned are crucial in addressing inequalities, and a key challenge for planning. This collaborative article interrogates how knowledge is mobilised in urban planning and practice, discussing three experiences which have actively centred often-excluded voices, as a way of disrupting knowled…
Accessibility and sustainable mobility transitions in Africa: Insights from Freetown
In the context of still-low-but-rising levels of motorization and economic growth, increasing social and spatial inequalities, and growing concerns about air pollution and climate change, the formulation and implementation of policies, practices and partnerships that can support an accelerated implementation of sustainable mobility policies is an urgent concern for rapidly developing cities. This paper seeks to contribute to reframing some of the…
The “slow anatomy of change”: Urban knowledge trajectories towards an inclusive settlement upgrading agenda in Freetown, Sierra Leone
This paper examines the dominant knowledge paradigms that have underpinned planning over time in Freetown, Sierra Leone and their implications for urban equality. Looking at the history of the informal settlement upgrading agenda, it presents this analysis through a historical mapping, outlining the knowledge paradigms that have informed planning approaches from the colonial era to the present day. It then outlines three strategic moments over th…
The social regulation of livelihoods in unplanned settlements in Freetown: Implications for strategies of formalisation
This paper questions strategies of economic formalisation which prioritise the extension of state regulation as a means of extending access to labour protection and social protection. It draws on a research project on key livelihood systems and their associated governance arrangements in three unplanned urban settlements in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Our analysis of these fishing, and sand and stone-quarrying livelihood systems highlights the collec…
Beyond formal and informal: Understanding urban informalities from Freetown
Beyond formal and informal: Understanding urban informalities from Freetown
The “slow anatomy of change”: Urban knowledge trajectories towards an inclusive settlement upgrading agenda in Freetown, Sierra Leone
This paper examines the dominant knowledge paradigms that have underpinned planning over time in Freetown, Sierra Leone and their implications for urban equality. Looking at the history of the informal settlement upgrading agenda, it presents this analysis through a historical mapping, outlining the knowledge paradigms that have informed planning approaches from the colonial era to the present day. It then outlines three strategic moments over th…
Accessibility and sustainable mobility transitions in Africa: Insights from Freetown
In the context of still-low-but-rising levels of motorization and economic growth, increasing social and spatial inequalities, and growing concerns about air pollution and climate change, the formulation and implementation of policies, practices and partnerships that can support an accelerated implementation of sustainable mobility policies is an urgent concern for rapidly developing cities. This paper seeks to contribute to reframing some of the…
The social regulation of livelihoods in unplanned settlements in Freetown: Implications for strategies of formalisation
This paper questions strategies of economic formalisation which prioritise the extension of state regulation as a means of extending access to labour protection and social protection. It draws on a research project on key livelihood systems and their associated governance arrangements in three unplanned urban settlements in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Our analysis of these fishing, and sand and stone-quarrying livelihood systems highlights the collec…
Accessibility, (dis)advantage and everyday mobility practices and experiences: The cases of Maputo and Freetown
This paper deconstructs everyday mobility practices from a perspective of accessibility and social and transport (dis)advantage in two capital port cities in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) – Freetown, Sierra Leone and Maputo, Mozambique. The paper proposes a novel framework that interprets social and transport (dis)advantage conditions as critical drivers of mobility behaviours and the resulting (in)accessibility that circumscribes individuals’ experie…
Beyond formal and informal: Understanding urban informalities from Freetown
The social regulation of livelihoods in unplanned settlements in Freetown: Implications for strategies of formalisation
This paper questions strategies of economic formalisation which prioritise the extension of state regulation as a means of extending access to labour protection and social protection. It draws on a research project on key livelihood systems and their associated governance arrangements in three unplanned urban settlements in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Our analysis of these fishing, and sand and stone-quarrying livelihood systems highlights the collec…
Sustaining Community-Based Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic: Learning Platforms at Work in Freetown, Sierra Leone
In Freetown, Sierra Leone, despite the progress in the official response to the COVID-19 outbreak, there remain concerns about the limited involvement of local communities and the use of bottom-up participatory approaches in the response. While the official response has been characterised by restrictive public health measures such as partial lockdowns and the declaration of a state of a public health emergency, for the urban poor, the implication…
“Emancipatory Circuits of Knowledge” for Urban Equality: Experiences From Havana, Freetown, and Asia
Feminist, Southern, and decolonial thinkers have long argued that epistemological questions about how knowledge is produced and whose knowledge is valued and actioned are crucial in addressing inequalities, and a key challenge for planning. This collaborative article interrogates how knowledge is mobilised in urban planning and practice, discussing three experiences which have actively centred often-excluded voices, as a way of disrupting knowled…
Accessibility and sustainable mobility transitions in Africa: Insights from Freetown
In the context of still-low-but-rising levels of motorization and economic growth, increasing social and spatial inequalities, and growing concerns about air pollution and climate change, the formulation and implementation of policies, practices and partnerships that can support an accelerated implementation of sustainable mobility policies is an urgent concern for rapidly developing cities. This paper seeks to contribute to reframing some of the…
The “slow anatomy of change”: Urban knowledge trajectories towards an inclusive settlement upgrading agenda in Freetown, Sierra Leone
This paper examines the dominant knowledge paradigms that have underpinned planning over time in Freetown, Sierra Leone and their implications for urban equality. Looking at the history of the informal settlement upgrading agenda, it presents this analysis through a historical mapping, outlining the knowledge paradigms that have informed planning approaches from the colonial era to the present day. It then outlines three strategic moments over th…
Accessibility, (dis)advantage and everyday mobility practices and experiences: The cases of Maputo and Freetown
This paper deconstructs everyday mobility practices from a perspective of accessibility and social and transport (dis)advantage in two capital port cities in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) – Freetown, Sierra Leone and Maputo, Mozambique. The paper proposes a novel framework that interprets social and transport (dis)advantage conditions as critical drivers of mobility behaviours and the resulting (in)accessibility that circumscribes individuals’ experie…
The Economic Burden of Healthcare Utilization: Findings from a Health and Well-Being Survey in Informal Settlements of Freetown, Sierra Leone
Barriers to transition towards sustainable mobility in Sub-Saharan African cities: The case of Maputo and Freetown
This paper explores the extent to which growing cities in Sub-Saharan Africa can accelerate and leapfrog their urban development processes to avoid unsustainable car-dependent developments and instead pursue alternative sustainable mobility transitions. Taking Maputo, Mozambique, and Freetown, Sierra Leone, as case study cities, the paper aims to identify the most common structural issues underpinning transport and land-use that hinder these citi…
Intersectional experiences of non-communicable diseases and health seeking strategies in informal settlements in Freetown, Sierra Leone
This paper takes an intersectional approach to explore the burdens of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and their interactions with gendered inequities and poverty, in shaping health seeking practices. The study explores the lived experiences of men and women living with NCDs in three informal settlements in Freetown, Sierra Leone. As Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) grapple with increased NCD risk factors, evidence gaps limit understandin…
Intersectional inequalities in healthcare utilisation in informal settlements in Freetown, Sierra Leone: A multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy (Maihda)
Introduction Residents of informal settlements face significant intersectional inequalities, due to the overlapping and compounding effects of multiple social factors. This study aims to explore how these intersecting social factors, identified by community members, combine to shape household-level inequalities healthcare utilisation (HU) among residents of informal settlements in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Methods This study employed participatory …
The politics of informal settlements in African cities: Comparative insights from Accra, Freetown, Harare and Kampala
Many of the development challenges represented by informal settlements in global South cities – where most low-income urban residents live – are profoundly political in nature, involving entrenched interests, the interplay of competitive and patronage politics and the constrained political agency of low-income urban residents. However, and despite the growing literature on the politics of democratisation, clientelism and ethnicity in African citi…
Sierra leone (9 works) · Geography (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Socioeconomics (6 works) · Urban and Rural Development Challenges (6 works) · Informal settlements (5 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (4 works)