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Exploring Cityscapes: Kinshasa and Johannesburg - Theodore Trefon, ed. Reinventing Order in the Congo: How People Respond to State Failure in Kinshasa. London: Zed Books, 2004. ix + 222 pp. Maps. Tables. Bibliography. Index. $27.50. Paper. - Filip de Boeck and Marie-Françoise Plissart. Kinshasa: Tales of the Invisible City. Ghent: Ludion; Tervuren: Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, 2004. 285 pp. Photographs. Notes. References. Index of names. Index of illustrations. €40. Cloth. - Keith Beavon. Johannesburg: The Making and Shaping of the City. Pretoria: University of South Africa Press; Leiden: Brill, 2004. xx + 373 pp. Photographs. Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $49.00. Paper.

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Theodore Trefon, ed. Reinventing Order in the Congo: How People Respond to State Failure in Kinshasa. London: Zed Books, 2004. ix + 222 pp. Maps. Tables. Bibliography. Index. $27.50. Paper.
Filip de Boeck and Marie-Françoise Plissart. Kinshasa: Tales of the Invisible City. Ghent: Ludion; Tervuren: Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, 2004. 285 pp. Photographs. Notes. References. Index of names. Index of illustrations. €40. Cloth.
Keith Beavon. Johannesburg: The Making and Shaping of the City. Pretoria: University of South Africa Press; Leiden: Brill, 2004. xx + 373 pp. Photographs. Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $49.00. Paper.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 October 2013

M. Anne Pitcher  and
Martin J. Murray
M. Anne Pitcher
Affiliation:
Colgate University, Hamilton, New York
Martin J. Murray
Affiliation:
State University of New York, Binghamton, New York
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African Studies Review , Volume 50 , Issue 3 , December 2007 , pp. 143 - 146
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