Title:	African Cities Competing Claims on Urban Spaces
Authors:	Francesca, Locatelli Paul, Nugent
Keywords:	Urbanization—Africa
Issue Date:	2009
Publisher:	Brill
Description:	On a daily basis, the media and bodies such as the Commission for Africa and United Nations agencies stress the ‘new’ urbanisation and predict the coming of Africa as an urban continent. Th ere is of course a tremendous history of European ‘discovering’ African processes that have long since existed and urbanism is one of them. African urbanism is certainly not a new phenomenon and in the last few decades historians of urban Africa have been tracing trajectories of African urban growth, challenging the notion of Africa as a ‘rural’ continent. Th e outstanding contributions of historians such as Cooper, Anderson and Rathbone, Salm and Falola, Coquery-Vidrovitch, Burton, Parker and more recently Freund, just to mention a few, have opened up new analytical horizons on the variety of urban forms developed over centuries in Africa, their multifaceted functionalities, alongside the complex historical dynamics which contributed to their shape.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/9156
ISBN:	978-90-04-16264-8
Appears in Collections:	African Studies

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