Full Description
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.
Contents
CONTENTS
Figures, Tables and Maps ................................................................. vii
Introduction ........................................................................................ 1
Francesca Locatelli and Paul Nugent
Hinges and Fringes: Conceptualising the Peri-urban in Central Africa ..........
Theodore Trefon
Angolan Cities: Urban (Re)segregation? ........................................ 37
Cristina Udelsmann Rodrigues
Who Control the Streets? Crime, 'Communities' and the State in Post-Apartheid Johannesburg ........... 55
Claire Bénit-Gbaff ou
African Cities: Competing Claims on Urban Land ..................... 81
Paul Jenkins
Contesting for Space in an Urban Centre: The Omo Onile Syndrome in Lagos ......... 109
Rufus T. Akinyele
'Water Wars' in Kumasi, Ghana ...................................................... 135
Tom C. McCaskie
Coping with Water Scarcity: The Social and Environmental Impact of the 1982-1992 Droughts on Makokoba Township, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe .................................................................... 157
Muchaparara Musemwa
Dealing with 'Strangers': Allocating Urban Space to Migrants in Nigeria and French West Africa, End of
the Nineteenth Century to 1960 ................................................ 187
Laurent Fourchard
Beyond the Campo Cintato: Prostitutes, Migrants and 'Criminals' in Colonial Asmara (Eritrea), 1890-1941 ..... 219
Francesca Locatelli
The Urban Melting Pot in East Africa: Ethnicity and Urban Growth in Kampala and Dar es Salaam ......... 241
Deborah Fahy Bryceson
Popular Music, Identity and Politics in a Colonial Urban Space: The Case of Mwanza, Tanzania (1945-1961).. 261
Maria Suriano
List of Contributors ........................................................................... 291
Index .................................................................................................... 299
