Ntone Edjabe,
Edgar Pieterse,
Natasha Johnson,
et alJennifer Bryant, Andrea Meeson, Manu Herbstein, Dominique Malaquais, Martin Kimani, Manu Herbstein, Victor LaValle, Doreen Baingana, [26 More...]
The aim of this second instalment of the African Cities Reader is to provide a space to illuminate emergent urbanisms of Africa in its continental and diasporic richness. The leitmotif of the contemporary globalising era is mobility, which references the incessant circulation of goods, services, ideas, technologies, imaginaries and money.
African cities are uniquely marked by disjunctive ows and circuits, but in ways that amplify both the intensity of mobility, and its shadow, xity. The violent reverberations of colonialism in the processes of city living and building ensure that most urban dwellers are entangled in relationships of movement – as protagonists ...
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