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Book SynopsisContemporary Africa is undergoing a period of unprecedented urban expansion, which is throwing up new challenges in the provision of essential services and contentious questions about ownership of urban spaces. This volume explores the interconnections between these processes, whilst avoiding the tendency to forget that cities are also embedded in deeper historical processes that are integral to the framing of entitlements. Histories of migrancy and the creation of urban 'stranger' communities are fundamental in deciding who lives where and what this means, materially and socially. The gated communities that are springing up are often layered across older forms of urban segregation and/or segmentation. Urban water and food supply, the management of urban land claims, inequality and popular culture are closely examined.
Trade ReviewReview in: African Studies Review Vol. 53 No. 1. ‘This book offers further evidence of the increasing interconnectivity and vibrancy of African studies across Western Europe. It emerged from papers presented to a themed conference in Scotland in 2006 of the Africa–Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (AEGIS), the third book in the past five years to be published in AEGIS’s book series with Brill. ….. Moreover, this book’s intellectual rigor and regional breadth—both in its stretch across sub-Saharan Africa and its blending of emergent British, French, Belgian, Portuguese, and Italian traditions of African studies— make it a welcome addition to the expanding bookcase of African urban studies’.
Table of ContentsCONTENTS Figures, Tables and Maps ................................................................. vii Introduction ........................................................................................ 1 Francesca Locatelli and Paul Nugent Hinges and Fringes: Conceptualising the Peri-urban in Central Africa .......... Theodore Trefon Angolan Cities: Urban (Re)segregation? ........................................ 37 Cristina Udelsmann Rodrigues Who Control the Streets? Crime, ‘Communities’ and the State in Post-Apartheid Johannesburg ........... 55 Claire Bénit-Gbaff ou African Cities: Competing Claims on Urban Land ..................... 81 Paul Jenkins Contesting for Space in an Urban Centre: The Omo Onile Syndrome in Lagos ......... 109 Rufus T. Akinyele ‘Water Wars’ in Kumasi, Ghana ...................................................... 135 Tom C. McCaskie Coping with Water Scarcity: The Social and Environmental Impact of the 1982–1992 Droughts on Makokoba Township, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe .................................................................... 157 Muchaparara Musemwa Dealing with ‘Strangers’: Allocating Urban Space to Migrants in Nigeria and French West Africa, End of the Nineteenth Century to 1960 ................................................ 187 Laurent Fourchard Beyond the Campo Cintato: Prostitutes, Migrants and ‘Criminals’ in Colonial Asmara (Eritrea), 1890–1941 ..... 219 Francesca Locatelli The Urban Melting Pot in East Africa: Ethnicity and Urban Growth in Kampala and Dar es Salaam ......... 241 Deborah Fahy Bryceson Popular Music, Identity and Politics in a Colonial Urban Space: The Case of Mwanza, Tanzania (1945–1961).. 261 Maria Suriano List of Contributors ........................................................................... 291 Index .................................................................................................... 299
