African Urban Spaces in Historical Perspective

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.

Moving East, Facing West: Islam as an Intercultural Mediator in Urban Planning in the Sokoto EmpireOppressive Impressioins, Architectural Expressioins: The Poetics of French Colonial (Ad)vantage, Regarding Africa"Just Build it Modern": Post-Apartheid Spaces on Namibia's Urban FrontierColonial Urbanization and Urban Management in Kenya"Inherently Unhygienic Races": Plague and the Origins of Settler Dominance in Nairobi, 1899-1907Urbanization and Afrikaner Class Formation: The Mine Workers' Union and the Search for a Cultural IdentityThe Importance of Being Educated: Strategies of an Urban Petit- Bourgeois Elite, South Africa 1935-50Where Every Language Is Heard: Atlantic Commerce, West African and Asian Migrants, and Town Society in Libreville, ca. 1860-1914Captured and Steeped in Colonial Dynamics and Legacy: The Case of Isiolo Town in KenyaFrom Marabout Republics to Autonomous Rural Communities: Autonomous Muslim Towns in SenegalAfricanite and Urbanite: The Place of the Urban in Imaginings of African Identity during the Late Colonial Period in French West AfricaUrban Poverty, Urban Crime, and Crime Control: The Lagos and Ibadan Cases 1929-45The Fluctuating Fortunes of Anglophone Cameroon Towns: The Case of Victoria, 1858-1982Urban Planning and Development in Zimbabwe: A Historical PerspectiveSomalia's City of the Jackals: Politics, Economy, and Society in Mogadishu (1991-2001)