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Africa in Urban History

Expected online publication date:  13 January 2025

Ambe J. Njoh
Affiliation:
University of South Florida

Summary

This Element in Global Urban History seeks to promote understanding of the urban history of Africa. It does so by undertaking four main tasks. Firstly, it employs race, ethnicity, class, and conflict theory as conceptual frameworks to analyze the spatial structures, social, and political-economic dynamics of African cities from global, comparative, and transnational perspectives. Secondly, it proposes a new typology of the continent's cities. Thirdly, it identifies and draws into focus an important but oft-ignored part of Africa's urban history, namely Indigenous cities. It focuses more intensely on the few that still exist to date. Fourthly, it employs conflict, functional, and symbolic interactionist theories as well as elements of the race ideology to explain the articulation of racism, ethnicity, and classism in the continent's urban space. This is done mainly but not exclusively from historical perspectives.
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Online ISBN: 9781009446839
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Africa in Urban History
  • Ambe J. Njoh, University of South Florida
  • Online ISBN: 9781009446839
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Africa in Urban History
  • Ambe J. Njoh, University of South Florida
  • Online ISBN: 9781009446839
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