Full Description
Urban Africa is undergoing a transformation unlike anywhere else in the world, as unprecedented numbers of people migrate to rapidly expanding cities. But despite the growing body of work on urban Africa, the lives of these new city dwellers have received relatively little attention, particularly when it comes to crucial issues of power and inequality.
This interdisciplinary collection brings together contributions from urban studies, geography, and anthropology to provide new insights into the social and political dynamics of African cities, as well as uncovering the causes and consequences of urban inequality. Featuring rich new ethnographic research data and case studies drawn from across the continent, the collection shows that Africa's new urbanites have adapted to their environs in ways which often defy the assumptions of urban planners. By examining the experiences of these urban residents in confronting issues of power and agency, the contributors consider how such insights can inform more effective approaches to research, city planning and development both in Africa and beyond.
Contents
Introduction - Annika Teppo and Laura Stark
Section I: Urban Renewal on a Massive Scale - Negotiating Space in Addis Ababa
1. Neighborhood Open Spaces: Participation and Spatial Transformation in Addis Ababa's Housing Cooperatives - Elias Y. Alemayehu and Segen Y. Tesfamariam
2. Formation and Transformation of Urbanism in Addis Ababa - Yonas Alemayehu Soressa
3. Locked out: Urban Inequalities in the Rapidly Transforming Inner City of Addis Ababa - Imam Mahmoud Hassen
4. Youth, Kebeles and Liminal Spaces in Addis Ababa's Urban Renewal - Susanna Myllylä
Section II: Resource Extraction and Poverty in Emerging Urban Sites
5. Artisanal Gold Mining in West Africa and Ephemeral Urbanization - Cristiano Lanzano
6. Someone to Look After Me: Responsibility and Welfare on the Zambian Copperbelt - Patience Mususa
7. When a Gold Mine Boosts Urban Growth but Causes Poverty - Sidy Lamine Bagayoko
Section III: Rights to the City and Reconfigurations of Modernity in Cape Town and Luanda
8. From Musseque to High-Rise Towers: Luanda' s Renewal in Times of Abundance - Cristina Udelsmann Rodrigues
9. Gentrified out of Sight: Voices from the Edges of Cape Town - Annika Teppo
10. Dynamics of Temporary Living in Delft, Cape Town - Marianne Millstein
Section IV: Gendered Tactics for Survival in the City
11. Adjustment Strategies and Gendered Shifts in Informal Labour Among Migratory Youth Porters and Metal Scrap Dealers in Accra - Esther Yeboah Danso-Wiredu and Adjoa Afriyie Poku
12. Gender and Coping Strategies in Ouagadougou: Relational Networks Among the Chronically Poor - Madeleine Wayack Pambe and Nathalie Sawadogo
13. Being Poor in Urban Spaces: Physical Environment and Women's Livelihoods in a Tanzanian Slum - Tiina-Riitta Lappi
14. Negotiating Precarity in the Slum: Household, Intimacy, and Gender Bargains in Dar es Salaam - Laura Stark
15. Conclusion: Research-Based Policy Recommendations - Laura Stark and Annika Teppo
