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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.
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Keywords
- Artisanal Gold Miners
- Colonial administration
- Diaspora Investors
- Diaspora Returnees
- Diaspora Somalis
- Extra-state Violence
- Female Genital Cutting
- International Central Gospel Church
- Ivory Coast
- Liberation Wars
- linguistic landscape
- NGO Worker
- Northern Ghanaians
- Pentecostal churches
- RLI
- Social Support Activities
- Social Support Initiatives
- South Sudan
- South Sudanese
- Stone Town
- thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTM Regional / International studies
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSD Urban communities
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology
- Urban Africa
- Urban anthropology
- Van Dijk 2010a
- Young men
- Zanzibar Stone Town
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DOI: 10.4324/9781003003533Editions