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Urbanization and African Cultures

Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urbanization and African Cultures written by Toyin Falola and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urbanization and African Cultures affirms the centrality of African cities in the modernization of African cultures, showing how many have become firmly established in their settings, and reflecting the impact of globalization. Cities are presented as centers of culture and power and as powerful agencies that provide opportunities to generate new ideas. The book shows how cities empower Africans with the opportunity to assert themselves, to use culture to assert individual freedom and dignity, to articulate ideas of ethnicity and group solidarity, to portray class, and even to show off poverty. "[V]aluable attention is paid to cities and urban phenomena off the paths beaten by most Western-trained scholars." -- African Studies Review "[This book] successfully introduces readers to a range of cases that show the creative, translocal processes taking place on the ground in African cities." -- The International Journal of African Historical Studies

Globalization and Urbanization in Africa

Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : Africa World Press
ISBN 13 : 9781592211937
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book Globalization and Urbanization in Africa written by Toyin Falola and published by Africa World Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book scholars present new interpretations of African cities, from the pre-colonial to the modern, set in the context of national and international economy, politics and culture. While providing insights into the evolution of African cities, they also raise issues of vital importance to the survival of African cities. The chapters capture the mixed legacies of colonialism and the lingering consequences of neo-colonialism in a so-called age of globalisation.

Urbanization, Urbanism, and Urbanity in an African City

Author : P. Jenkins
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137380179
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Book Synopsis Urbanization, Urbanism, and Urbanity in an African City by : P. Jenkins

Download or read book Urbanization, Urbanism, and Urbanity in an African City written by P. Jenkins and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urbanization in sub-Saharan Africa has historic roots, and though it has accelerated in recent decades, it retains distinctive forms. This book explores sub-Saharan urbanism through a detailed and wide-ranging study of Maputo, Mozambique, covering physical and socio-economic factors as well as an ethnographic inquiry into cultural attitudes.

Africa and Urban Anthropology

Author : Deborah Pellow
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100068427X
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Africa and Urban Anthropology written by Deborah Pellow and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-08 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers valuable anthropological insight into urban Africa, covering a range of cities across a continent that has become one of the fastest urbanizing geographic areas of the globe. Consideration is given to the structures, social formations, and rhythms that constitute the definition of an African city, town, or urban space, and to current concepts for thinking about African cities in the twenty-first century. The contributors examine topics including notions of belonging, the effects of globalization, colonialism, and transnationalism on African urban life, the cultural dimensions of infrastructure and public resources, mobility, labor issues, spatial organization, language, and popular culture trends, among other themes. The book reflects on how the ethnography of urban Africa fits within anthropology and urban studies, and on new theoretical concepts and methodologies that can be created through anthropological fieldwork in African cities. It will be of particular interest to scholars and students from anthropology, African studies and urban studies, as well as sociology and geography.

The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History

Author : John Parker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 019957247X
Total Pages : 559 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History written by John Parker and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides the latest insights into, and interpretations of, the history of Africa

The Arts of Citizenship in African Cities

Author : M. Diouf
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137481889
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book The Arts of Citizenship in African Cities written by M. Diouf and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-16 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arts of Citizenship in African Cities pushes the frontiers of how we understand cities and citizenship and offers new perspectives on African urbanism. Nuanced ethnographic analyses of life in an array of African cities illuminate the emergent infrastructures and spaces of belonging through which urban lives and politics are being forged.

Urbanization as a Social Process

Author : Kenneth Little
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113653136X
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book Urbanization as a Social Process written by Kenneth Little and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urbanization is probably the most important process taking place in African countries. This book provides a lucid and informative study of the significance of urbanization for social change in sub-Saharan Africa, which has vital implications for all developing regions. Originally published in 1974.

Urban Anthropology; Cross-cultural Studies of Urbanization

Author : Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Urban Anthropology; Cross-cultural Studies of Urbanization written by Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bibliography by P.C.W. Gutkind annotated separately.

Urbanization and Migration in West Africa

Author : Hilda Kuper
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520310403
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Urbanization and Migration in West Africa written by Hilda Kuper and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-05-13 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1965.

West African Urbanization

Author : Kenneth Little
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521055659
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book West African Urbanization written by Kenneth Little and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1965-01-02 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1971 book considers the part played by voluntary associations in the growth of towns in West Africa.

African Urban Spaces in Historical Perspective

Author : Steven J. Salm
Publisher : University Rochester Press
ISBN 13 : 9781580463140
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (631 download)

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Download or read book African Urban Spaces in Historical Perspective written by Steven J. Salm and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents new and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of African urban history and culture. Moving between precolonial, colonial, and contemporary urban spaces, it covers the major regions, religions, and urban societies of sub-Saharan Africa. African Urban Spaces in Historical Perspective presents new and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of African urban history and culture. It presents original research and integrates historical methodologies with those of anthropology, geography, literature, art, and architecture. Moving between precolonial, colonial, and contemporary urban spaces, it covers the major regions, religions, and cultural influences of sub-Saharan Africa. The themes include Islam and Christianity, architecture, migration, globalization, social and physical decay, identity, race relations, politics, and development. This book elaborates on not only what makes the study of African urban spaces unique within urban historiography, it also offers an-encompassing and up-to-date study of the subject and inserts Africa into the growing debate on urban history and culture throughout the world. The opportunities provided by the urban milieu are endless and each study opens new potential avenues of research. This book explores some of those avenues and lays the groundwork on which new studies can build. Contributors: Maurice NyamangaAmutabi, Catherine Coquery Vidrovitch, Mark Dike DeLancey, Thomas Ngomba Ekali, Omar A. Eno, Doug T. Feremenga, Laurent Fourchard, James Genova, Fatima Muller-Friedman, Godwin R. Murunga, Kefa M. Otiso, Michael Ralph, Jeremy Rich, Eric Ross, Corinne Sandwith, Wessel Visser. Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin; Steven J.Salm is Assistant Professor of History, Xavier University of Louisiana.

Living the City in Africa

Author : Brigit Obrist
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643801521
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Living the City in Africa written by Brigit Obrist and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2013 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research on cities worldwide still takes its cue from cities in Europe and the US, which are seen as the standard model. However, cities in the global South are undergoing a much more rapid transformation, including multiple interlinked transitions, with Africa featuring the highest urbanization rates world-wide. Scholars therefore call for a new approach to urban studies which examines cities from a more global comparative perspective. This book discusses the new approach, which pays added attention to the role that societal creativity plays in processes of urbanization, instead of concentrating exclusively on expert-driven planning and intervention. Especially in fast-growing cities with weaker institutional capacity for interventions, the interplay between intervention and invention, between expert and societal agency, becomes more tangible and all the more significant. (Series: Swiss African Studies / Schweizerische Afrikastudien / Etudes africaines suisses - Vol. 10)

Culture and Rural–Urban Revitalisation in South Africa

Author : Mziwoxolo Sirayi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000397386
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Culture and Rural–Urban Revitalisation in South Africa written by Mziwoxolo Sirayi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-14 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book captures ground-breaking attempts to utilise culture in territorial development and regeneration processes in the context of South Africa and our 'new normal' brought by COVID-19, the fourth industrial revolution, and climate change the world over. The importance of culture in rural-urban revitalisation has been underestimated in South Africa and the African continent at large. Despite some cultural initiatives that are still at developmental stages in big cities, such as Johannesburg, eThekwini and Cape Town, there is concern about the absence of sustainable policies and plans to support culture, creativity, and indigenous knowledge at national and municipal levels. Showcasing alternative strategies for making culture central to development, this book discusses opportunities to shift culture and indigenous knowledge from the peripheries and place them at the epicentre of sustainable development and the mainstream of cultural planning, which can then be applied in the contexts of Africa and the Global South. Governmental institutions, research councils, civil society organisations, private sector, and higher education institutions come together in a joint effort to explain the nexus between culture, economic development, rural-urban linkages, grassroots and technological innovations. Culture and Rural-Urban Revitalization in South Africa is an ideal read for those interested in rural and urban planning, cultural policy, indigenous knowledge and smart rural village model.

The African City

Author : Bill Freund
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139459554
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book The African City written by Bill Freund and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-05 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

West African Urbanization

Author : Kenneth Lindsay Little
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (242 download)

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Download or read book West African Urbanization written by Kenneth Lindsay Little and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Seven Themes in African Urban Dynamics

Author : Garth Andrew Myers
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
ISBN 13 : 9789171066770
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (667 download)

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Download or read book Seven Themes in African Urban Dynamics written by Garth Andrew Myers and published by Nordic Africa Institute. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Garth Myers, commissioned by the Urban Cluster, is a valuable contribution to shaping the research agenda on urban Africa.

Cities in Contemporary Africa

Author : M. Murray
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230603343
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Cities in Contemporary Africa written by M. Murray and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-01-08 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.