The African City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The African City write by Bill Freund. This book was released on 2007-03-05. The African City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Migrants and Strangers in an African City
Migrants and Strangers in an African City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Migrants and Strangers in an African City write by Bruce Whitehouse. This book was released on 2012-03-14. Migrants and Strangers in an African City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In cities throughout Africa, local inhabitants live alongside large populations of "strangers." Bruce Whitehouse explores the condition of strangerhood for residents who have come from the West African Sahel to settle in Brazzaville, Congo. Whitehouse considers how these migrants live simultaneously inside and outside of Congolese society as merchants, as Muslims in a predominantly non-Muslim society, and as parents seeking to instill in their children the customs of their communities of origin. Migrants and Strangers in an African City challenges Pan-Africanist ideas of transnationalism and diaspora in today's globalized world.
African Cities and the Development Conundrum
African Cities and the Development Conundrum - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook African Cities and the Development Conundrum write by Carole Ammann. This book was released on 2018-10-16. African Cities and the Development Conundrum available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
For the City Yet to Come
For the City Yet to Come - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook For the City Yet to Come write by Abdou Maliqalim Simone. This book was released on 2004-10-07. For the City Yet to Come available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. DIVA study of how colonial and postcolonial legacies manifest in African cities and African urban planning./div
African Cities
African Cities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook African Cities write by Professor Garth Myers. This book was released on 2011-04-01. African Cities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this groundbreaking book, Garth Myers uses African urban concepts and experiences to speak back to theoretical and practical concerns. He argues for a re-visioning - a seeing again, and a revising - of how cities in Africa are discussed and written about in both urban studies and African studies. Cities in Africa are still either ignored - banished to a different, other, lesser category of not-quite cities - or held up as examples of all that can go wrong with urbanism in much of the mainstream and even critical urban literature. Myers instead encourages African studies and urban studies scholars across the world to engage with the vibrancy and complexity of African cities with fresh eyes. Touching on a diverse range of cities across Africa - from Zanzibar to Nairobi, Cape Town to Mogadishu, Kinshasa to Dakar - the book uses the author's own research and a close reading of works by other scholars, writers and artists to help illuminate what is happening in and across the region's cities.
