Postcolonial African Cities: Imperial Legacies and Postcolonial Predicament

by Demissie; Fassil

• ISBN13: 9780415495653
• ISBN10: 0415495652
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2008-10-21
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book offers a range of scholarly interpretations of the new forms of urbanity in contemporary African cities, engaging with issues including colonial legacies, postcolonial intersections, cosmopolitan spaces, urban reconfigurations, and migration. It covers cities as diverse as Dar Es Salaam, Dakar, Johannesburg, Lagos and Kinshasa.

Table of Contents

Imperial legacies and postcolonial predicaments: an introduction	p. 1
Metropolitanism, capital and patrimony: theorizing the postcolonial West African city	p. 11
Casting a long shadow: colonial categories, cultural identities, and cosmopolitan spaces in globalizing Africa	p. 25
Viewing postcolonial Dar es Salaam, Tanzania through civic spaces: a question of class	p. 43
Transforming urban landscapes: soccer fields as sites of urban sociability in the agglomeration of Dakar	p. 59
Narrating the African city from the diaspora: Lagos as a trope in Ben Okri and Chika Unigwe's short stories	p. 73
The city beyond the border: the urban worlds of Duiker, Mpe and Vera	p. 89
Governing the city? South Africa's struggle to deal with urban immigrants after apartheid	p. 103
Cinema and the edgy city: Johannesburg, carjacking, and the postmetropolis	p. 121
Visual fragments of Kinshasa	p. 131
Index	p. 143
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