Crisis and creativity : : exploring the wealth of the African neighbourhood /

Crisis and creativity : : exploring the wealth of the African neighbourhood / / edited by Piet Konings, Dick Foeken.

At times of economic and political crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa, urban dwellers display a large degree of creativity in their survival strategies by developing social networks and constructing imaginative and original practices and ideas. This volume views the urban neighbourhood from two different...

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Superior document:African dynamics ; Volume 5
TeilnehmendeR:
Foeken, D.,
Konings, Piet,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2006]
©2006
Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
Series:African dynamics ; Volume 5.
Physical Description:1 online resource (viii, 254 p. ); ill., maps ;
Notes:Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Figures vii
  • Maps vii
  • Tables vii
  • Photographs viii
  • 1 The African neighbourhood: An introduction 1
  • Piet Konings, Rijk van Dijk & Dick Foeken
  • 2 Surviving in the neighbourhoods of Nakuru town, Kenya 22
  • Samuel Owuor & Dick Foeken
  • 3 'Bendskin' drivers in Douala's New Bell neighbourhood: Masters of the road and the city 46
  • Piet Konings
  • 4 Intimate strangers: Neighbourhood, autochthony and the politics of belonging 66
  • Basile Ndjio
  • 5 Neighbourhood formation process: Access to housing land in Kamwokya, Kampala, Uganda 88
  • Emmanuel Nkurunziza
  • 6 Urban space, gender and identity: A neighbourhood of Muslim women in Kano, Nigeria 119
  • Katja Werthmann
  • 7 Maps of what matters: Community colour 142
  • Deborah Pellow
  • 8 Not quite the comforts of home: Searching for locality among street youth in Dar es Salaam 163
  • Eileen Moyer
  • 9 Togolese cartographies: Re-mapping space in a post-Cold War city 197
  • Charles Piot
  • 10 Neighbours on the fringes of a small city in post-war Chad 211
  • Mirjam de Bruijn
  • 11 Neighbourhood (re)construction and changing identities in Mauritania from a small town perspective 230
  • Kiky van Til
  • List of authors 251.

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