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Singumbe Muyeba

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Dr. Singumbe Muyeba is an Assistant Professor of African Studies. He is a core faculty member of the the Institute of Comparative Regional Studies focusing on Africa programming. He is an award-winning teacher having had the honor to be voted the Korbel School's Distinguished Teaching Award for 2023. His book, The Homeowner Ideology: Economic (F)Utility of Real Property Rights in Four African Cities will be published by University of Michigan Press in March 2025. His previous book, Globalisation and Africa in the Twenty-First Century: A Zambian Perspective, was published by Authorhouse in 2008. He has published numerous articles in top tier journals on formalization of property rights among low income households in informal settlements, inequality and poverty in Africa. His current research focuses on measuring and modeling global populations living in slum conditions using innovative novel methods.

Dr Muyeba holds a PhD in Sociology and MPhil in Development Studies from the University of Cape Town in South Africa, and a BA from University of Zambia. In the United States, He attended Yale University as a Fox International Fellow and attended summer school on Development and Inequality in the Global South at Brown University. He has also attended summer school at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Previously, he worked for the United Nations Development Program, UNHCR and the Massachusetts Housing and Shelter Alliance.

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  • Professional Affiliations

    Pardee Institute, ICRS

    Global Economic Affairs, International Development

  • Books

    Muyeba, S. (2025). The Homeowner Ideology: Economic (F)Utility of Real Property Rights in Four African Cities. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (In production). https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.14418455

  • Articles

    Brennan, Kevin, Singumbe Muyeba, Kathryn Buggs, Alexis Henry, John Gettens & Parag Kunte. (2024). Exchanging Housing Dollars for Health Care Savings: The Impact of Housing First on Health Care Costs, Housing Policy Debate, 34(4), 469“488. https://doi.org/10.1080/10511482.2023.2297976

    Muyeba, S. (2024). International Economic Relations, in Horman Chitonge, Caleb Fundanga, Mundia Kabinga, and Vera Songwe (Eds). The Oxford Handbook of the Zambian Economy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-the-zambian-economy-9780192864222?cc=us&lang=en&

    Muyeba, S. (2023). Banking on receipts and political declarations: Perceived tenure security and housing investments in Luanda, Angola. Habitat International Journal Vol 138, August 2023. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0197397523001261?dgcid=author

    Muyeba, S. (2023). Property rights and household income among the urban poor in Luanda, Angola. Environment and Urbanization Vol 35(2) https://doi.org/10.1177/095624782312053 . https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09562478231205371

    Muyeba, S. (2023). Property rights and health for the urban housing poor in Nairobi: Evidence from a phased-in natural experiment, Journal of Urban Affairs, Vol 45(3), pages 590-615. DOI: 10.1080/07352166.2021.2000874 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07352166.2021.2000874

    Muyeba, S. (2019). Institutional capital, urban poverty and household wealth in Cape Town. World Development Perspectives. 16(1): 100-139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wdp.2019.100139

    Finn, J., Muyeba, S. Brigham, T. (2018). The Massachusetts PFS Story: Social Innovation Financing as a Catalyst for Change? Journal of Affordable Housing and Community Development Law Vol 27, 2, 367-383. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26496810

    Muyeba, S. (2018). Does strength of tenure rights among the urban poor improve household economies? Contrasting Matero and George in Lusaka city. International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development Vol. 10, 1, 16-31. https://doi.org/10.1080/19463138.2017.1383257

    Muyeba, S. (2016). Effects of state-subsidised housing on poverty in Cape Town. Development Southern Africa. Vol. 33(5):628-643. https://doi.org/10.1080/0376835X.2016.1203757

    Muyeba, S. & Seekings, J. (2012). 'Homeownership, privacy and neighbourly relations in poor urban neighbourhoods in Cape Town, South Africa'. South African Review of Sociology Vol. 43(3):41-63. https://doi.org/10.1080/21528586.2012.727546

    Muyeba, S. & Seekings, J. (2011). 'Race attitudes and behaviour in racially-mixed low-income neighbourhoods in Cape Town, South Africa' Current Sociology Vol.59(5): 655-671. https://doi.org/10.1177/0011392111408679

  • Books

    Muyeba, S. (2008). Globalisation and Africa in the Twenty-First Century: A Zambian Perspective. Central Milton Keynes: AuthorHouse. https://www.authorhouse.com/en/bookstore/bookdetails/268088-Globalisation-and-Africa-in-the-Twenty-First-Century

  • Articles

    Muyeba, S. Joe Finn & Thomas Brigham. (2017). Effects of Social Innovation Financed "Housing First" Programs on Retention, Utilization of Services and Cost-Savings: The Case of the Pay for Success program. Social Innovation Journal Issue 41: Boston Edition www.socialinnovationsjournal.org/editions/issue-41/75-disruptive-innovations/2683...

  • Selected Research Reports

    Rafa, M., Muyeba, S., Moyer, J., Hanna, T. (2020). The Future of Poverty in Zambia to 2060: Assessing National and Sub-National Trends across Scenarios. Report submitted to Overseas Development Institute (ODI). Denver: Pardee Center for International Futures, University of Denver

    Brennan, K., Zuckerman, P., Buggs, K., Muyeba, S., Henry, A., Gettens, J., Kunte, P. (2020). The Preventive Effect of Housing First on Health Care Utilization and Costs Among Chronically Homeless Individuals: New Evidence Using Propensity Score Analysis. Boston: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation

    Seekings, J., Jooste, T., Muyeba, S., Coqui, M., & Russell, M. (2010). "The social consequences of establishing "mixed" neighbourhoods: Does the mechanism for selecting beneficiaries for low-income housing projects affect the quality of the ensuing "community" and the likelihood of violent conflict? Report for the Department of Local Government and Housing, Provincial Government of the Western Cape. Cape Town: Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town and Palmer Development Group

  • Distinguished Teacher Award for 2023, Josef Korbel School of International Studies

  • INTS 4091 Economics of Development

  • INTS 4427 Political Economy of Sustainable Development in Africa

  • INTS 4706 Research Practicum in Africa

  • INTS 4091 Great Issues in International Affairs

  • INTS 3365 African Development - Topics, Patterns and Issues

  • Postdoctoral Fellowship, Sociology of Development, University of Cape Town , 2015

  • Ph.D., Sociology, University of Cape Town, 2014

  • Certificate, International and Area Studies, Yale University, 2012

  • Certificate, Urban Sociology, International Sociological Association- Research Committee on Sociology of Urban and Regional Development, 2011

  • Certificate, Development and Inequality in the Global South, Brown University, 2010

  • M.Phil., Development Studies, University of Cape Town, 2009

  • B.A., Public Administration and Development Studies, University of Zambia, 2005

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