African cities : : competing claims on urban spaces / / edited by Francesca Locatelli, Paul Nugent.

• Superior document: African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies, v. 3
• TeilnehmendeR: Locatelli, Francesca.; Nugent, Paul, 1962-
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (Series) ; v. 3.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (316 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Contemporary 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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Dr. Locatelli and P Prof. Nugent -- Introduction / Francesca Locatelli and Paul Nugent -- Hinges and Fringes: Conceptualising the peri-urban in Central Africa / Theodore Trefon -- Angolan cities: Urban (re)segregation? / Cristina Udelsmann Rodrigues -- Who control the streets? Crime, ‘communities’ and the state in post-apartheid Johannesburg / Claire Bénit-Gbaffou -- African cities: Competing claims on urban land / Paul Jenkins -- Contesting for space in an urban centre: The Omo Onile Syndrome in Lagos / Rufus T. Akinyele -- ‘Water wars’ in Kumasi, Ghana / Tom C. Mccaskie -- Coping with water scarcity: The social and environmental impact of the1982-1992 droughts on Makokoba Township, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe / Muchaparara Musemwa -- Dealing with ‘strangers’: Allocating urban space to migrants in Nigeria and french west Africa, end of the nineteenth century to 1960 / Laurent Fourchard -- Beyond the Campo Cintato: Prostitutes, migrants and criminals in colonial Asmara (Eritrea), 1890-1941 / Francesca Locatelli -- The urban melting pot in east Africa: Ethnicity and urban growth in Kampala and dar es Salaam / Deborah Fahy Bryceson -- Popular music, identity and politics in a colonial urban space: The case of Mwanza, Tanzania (1945-1961) / Maria Suriano -- List of contributors / Dr. Locatelli and P Prof. Nugent -- Index / Dr. Locatelli and P Prof. Nugent.