City Life In Africa
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City Life In Africa
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Author : Katja Werthmann
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-07-27
City Life In Africa written by Katja Werthmann and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-27 with Social Science categories.
This book introduces readers to the anthropology of urban life in Africa, showing what ethnography can teach us about African city dwellers’ own notions, practices, and reflections. Social anthropologists have studied city life in Africa since the early 20th century. Their works have addressed a number of questions that are relevant until today: What happens to rural people who move to the city? What kinds of livelihoods do they pursue? How does city life affect moralities and practices connected with gender roles, marriage, parenthood, and intergenerational relations? In which social situations are ethnic and other collective identifications relevant? How do people make a home in the city? What forms of authority and leadership become relevant in urban governance? How do people talk about city life? This book asks what anthropologists have come to learn about Africans’ views on city life. It provides a critical acclaim of ethnographies in English, French, and German and elucidates anthropology’s contribution to understanding city life in Africa. It highlights the significance of female, African and Diaspora scholars for an emerging urban anthropology of Africa. The chapters are organized according to everyday activities of city dwellers: moving, connecting, governing, working, dwelling, and wayfinding. The book will be an essential read for students and researchers of social anthropology, African and urban studies, but also for professionals in research and development organizations, thinktanks, and other institutions concerned with urban Africa.
For The City Yet To Come
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Author : Abdou Maliqalim Simone
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2004-10-07
For The City Yet To Come written by Abdou Maliqalim Simone and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-10-07 with Political Science categories.
DIVA study of how colonial and postcolonial legacies manifest in African cities and African urban planning./div
The Social Infrastructure Of City Life In Contemporary Africa
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Author : AbdouMaliq Simone
language : en
Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute
Release Date : 2012-02
The Social Infrastructure Of City Life In Contemporary Africa written by AbdouMaliq Simone and has been published by Nordic Africa Institute this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02 with Social Science categories.
The growth of cities is one of the most significant aspects of the contemporary transformation of African societies. Cities in Africa are the sites of major political, economic and social innovation, and thus play a critical role in national politics, domestic economic growth and social development. They are also key platforms for interaction with the wider world and mediate between global and national contexts. Cities are variously positioned in global flows of resources, goods and ideas, and are shaped by varied historical trajectories and local cultures. The result is a great diversity of urban societies across the continent. Cities in Africa are not only growing rapidly but are also undergoing deep political, economic and social transformation. They are changing in ways that defy usual notions of urbanism. In their dazzling complexity, they challenge most theories of the urban. African cities represent major challenges as well as opportunities. Both need to be understood and addressed if a sustainable urban future is to be achieved on the continent. The Urban Cluster of the Nordic Africa Institute, through its research, seeks to contribute to an understanding of processes of urban change in Africa. This discussion paper by Professor AbdouMaliq Simone, commissioned by the Urban Cluster, is a valuable contribution to shaping the research agenda on urban Africa.
Associational Life In African Cities
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Author : Arne Tostensen
language : en
Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute
Release Date : 2001
Associational Life In African Cities written by Arne Tostensen and has been published by Nordic Africa Institute this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Social Science categories.
The book contains 17 chapters with material from 13 African countries, from Egypt to Swaziland and from Senegal to Kenya. Most of the authors are young African academics. The focus of the volume is the multitude of voluntary associations that has emerged in African cities in recent years. In many cases, they are a response to mounting poverty, failing infrastructure and services, and more generally, weak or abdicating urban governments. Some associations are new, in other cases, existing organizations are taking on new tasks. Associations may be neighbourhood-based, others may be city-wide and based on professional groupings or a shared ideology or religion. Still others have an ethnic base. Some of these organizations are engaged in both day-to-day matters of urban management and more long-term urban development. Urban associations challenge the monopoly of local and central government institutions.
The African City
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Author : Bill Freund
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2007-03-05
The African City written by Bill Freund and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-03-05 with History categories.
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.
African City Life
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Author : Peter Marris
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
African City Life written by Peter Marris and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Africa categories.
Cities In Contemporary Africa
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Author : M. Murray
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2007-01-08
Cities In Contemporary Africa written by M. Murray and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-08 with Political Science categories.
This book explains how and why cities on the African continent have grown at such a rapid pace, how municipal authorities have tried to cope with this massive influx of people, and how long-time urban residents and newcomers interact, negotiate, and struggle over access to limited resources.
Cities And Suburbs
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Author : Margaret Peil
language : en
Publisher: Holmes & Meier Publishers
Release Date : 1981
Cities And Suburbs written by Margaret Peil and has been published by Holmes & Meier Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Social Science categories.
The Impact Of City Life On Africans
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Author : Ellen Hellmann
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
The Impact Of City Life On Africans written by Ellen Hellmann and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Acculturation categories.
The City In The African Novel
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Author : Lola Akande
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
The City In The African Novel written by Lola Akande and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Literary Collections categories.
Lola Akande's The City in the African Novel: A Thematic Rendering of Urban Spaces undertakes a critical analysis of sixteen African novels that she believes are representative of city trends. Beginning with an introduction that discusses why and how the city is an important phenomenon in literature, the problematic relationship between the city and the African novel, she goes on to examine how the African city emerges from villagisation into urbanity. Her careful and definitive analyses of the general and peculiar traits of African cities; the real impact of urban life on city dwellers; how earlier and recent novelists portray the city; how literature influences the way people conduct themselves in the city while the behaviour of people in the city also influences what comes out as literature are done against the background of the symbolisation of the African city as emblematic of the inchoate African modernities where citizens' lives are wracked with fruitless struggle. She then focuses on the contributions of female writers to the study of the city by critically assessing the extent to which city life has influenced female writers differently from their male counterparts.