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The African City
Author | : Bill Freund |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 2007-03-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781139459556 |
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This book is comprehensive both in terms of time coverage, from before the Pharaohs to the present moment and in that it tries to consider cities from the entire continent, not just Sub-Saharan Africa. Apart from factual information and rich description material culled from many sources, it looks at many issues from why urban life emerged in the first place to how present-day African cities cope in difficult times. Instead of seeing towns and cities as somehow extraneous to the real Africa, it views them as an inherent part of developing Africa, indigenous, colonial, and post-colonial and emphasizes the extent to which the future of African society and African culture will likely be played out mostly in cities. The book is written to appeal to students of history but equally to geographers, planners, sociologists and development specialists interested in urban problems.
For the City Yet to Come
Author | : Abdou Maliqalim Simone |
Publsiher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2004-10-07 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0822334453 |
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DIVA study of how colonial and postcolonial legacies manifest in African cities and African urban planning./div
City Life in Africa
Author | : Katja Werthmann |
Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2022-07-27 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781000603002 |
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This book introduces readers to the anthropology of urban life in Africa, showing what ethnography can teach us about African city dwellers’ own notions, practices, and reflections. Social anthropologists have studied city life in Africa since the early 20th century. Their works have addressed a number of questions that are relevant until today: What happens to rural people who move to the city? What kinds of livelihoods do they pursue? How does city life affect moralities and practices connected with gender roles, marriage, parenthood, and intergenerational relations? In which social situations are ethnic and other collective identifications relevant? How do people make a home in the city? What forms of authority and leadership become relevant in urban governance? How do people talk about city life? This book asks what anthropologists have come to learn about Africans’ views on city life. It provides a critical acclaim of ethnographies in English, French, and German and elucidates anthropology’s contribution to understanding city life in Africa. It highlights the significance of female, African and Diaspora scholars for an emerging urban anthropology of Africa. The chapters are organized according to everyday activities of city dwellers: moving, connecting, governing, working, dwelling, and wayfinding. The book will be an essential read for students and researchers of social anthropology, African and urban studies, but also for professionals in research and development organizations, thinktanks, and other institutions concerned with urban Africa.
Cities in Contemporary Africa
Author | : M. Murray,G. Myers |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2007-01-08 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780230603349 |
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This book explains how and why cities on the African continent have grown at such a rapid pace, how municipal authorities have tried to cope with this massive influx of people, and how long-time urban residents and newcomers interact, negotiate, and struggle over access to limited resources.
The Social Infrastructure of City Life in Contemporary Africa
Author | : AbdouMaliq Simone |
Publsiher | : Nordic Africa Institute |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2012-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9171066780 |
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The growth of cities is one of the most significant aspects of the contemporary transformation of African societies. Cities in Africa are the sites of major political, economic and social innovation, and thus play a critical role in national politics, domestic economic growth and social development. They are also key platforms for interaction with the wider world and mediate between global and national contexts. Cities are variously positioned in global flows of resources, goods and ideas, and are shaped by varied historical trajectories and local cultures. The result is a great diversity of urban societies across the continent. Cities in Africa are not only growing rapidly but are also undergoing deep political, economic and social transformation. They are changing in ways that defy usual notions of urbanism. In their dazzling complexity, they challenge most theories of the urban. African cities represent major challenges as well as opportunities. Both need to be understood and addressed if a sustainable urban future is to be achieved on the continent. The Urban Cluster of the Nordic Africa Institute, through its research, seeks to contribute to an understanding of processes of urban change in Africa. This discussion paper by Professor AbdouMaliq Simone, commissioned by the Urban Cluster, is a valuable contribution to shaping the research agenda on urban Africa.
Associational Life in African Cities
Author | : Arne Tostensen,Inge Tvedten,Mariken Vaa |
Publsiher | : Nordic Africa Institute |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9171064656 |
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The book contains 17 chapters with material from 13 African countries, from Egypt to Swaziland and from Senegal to Kenya. Most of the authors are young African academics. The focus of the volume is the multitude of voluntary associations that has emerged in African cities in recent years. In many cases, they are a response to mounting poverty, failing infrastructure and services, and more generally, weak or abdicating urban governments. Some associations are new, in other cases, existing organizations are taking on new tasks. Associations may be neighbourhood-based, others may be city-wide and based on professional groupings or a shared ideology or religion. Still others have an ethnic base. Some of these organizations are engaged in both day-to-day matters of urban management and more long-term urban development. Urban associations challenge the monopoly of local and central government institutions.
African Cities and the Development Conundrum
Author | : Carole Ammann,Till Förster |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2018-10-16 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9789004387942 |
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This 10th thematic volume of International Development Policy presents a collection of articles exploring some of the complex development challenges associated with Africa’s recent but extremely rapid pace of urbanisation that challenges still predominant but misleading images of Africa as a rural continent. Analysing urban settings through the diverse experiences and perspectives of inhabitants and stakeholders in cities across the continent, the authors consider the evolution of international development policy responses amidst the unique historical, social, economic and political contexts of Africa’s urban development. Contributors include: Carole Ammann, Claudia Baez Camargo, Claire Bénit-Gbaffou, Karen Büscher, Aba Obrumah Crentsil, Sascha Delz, Ton Dietz, Till Förster, Lucy Koechlin, Lalli Metsola, Garth Myers, George Owusu, Edgar Pieterse, Sebastian Prothmann, Warren Smit, and Florian Stoll.
African City Life
Author | : Peter Marris |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : UOM:39015028082751 |
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