Cities in Contemporary Africa

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction: Situating Contemporary Cities in Africa....Pages 1-25
Front Matter....Pages 27-29
Douala/Johannesburg/New York: Cityscapes Imagined....Pages 31-52
Internal Migration and the Escalation of Ethnic and Religious Violence in Urban Nigeria....Pages 53-69
(Re)Configuring the City: The Mapping of Places and People in Contemporary Kenyan Popular Song Texts....Pages 71-101
Douala: Inventing Life in an African Necropolis....Pages 103-118
Front Matter....Pages 119-124
Economic Globalization from Below: Transnational Refugee Trade Networks in Nairobi....Pages 125-147
Changing African Cityscapes: Regional Claims of African Labor at South African-Owned Shopping Malls....Pages 149-172
Cars Are Killing Luanda: Cronyism, Consumerism, and Other Assaults on Angola’s Postwar, Capital City....Pages 173-199
Human Capital, Embedded Resources, and Employment for Youth in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe....Pages 201-219
Gender Relations, Bread Winning, and Family Life in Kinshasa....Pages 221-236
Front Matter....Pages 237-239
South African Urbanism: Between the Modern and the Refugee Camp....Pages 241-246
Planning, Anti-Planning, and the Infrastructure Crisis Facing Metropolitan Lagos....Pages 247-264
City Life in Zimbabwe at a Time of Fear and Loathing: Urban Planning, Urban Poverty, and Operation Murambatsvina....Pages 265-288
Social Control and Social Welfare under Neoliberalism in South African Cities: Contradictions in Free Basic Water Services....Pages 289-308
Back Matter....Pages 309-318