Imperial legacies and postcolonial predicaments : an introduction / Fassil Demissie -- Metropolitanism, capital and patrimony : theorizing the postcolonial West African city / Alfred Ndi -- Casting a long shadow : colonial categories, cultural identities, and cosmopolitan spaces in globalizing Africa / William Cunningham Bissell -- Viewing postcolonial Dar es Salaam, Tanzania through civic spaces : a question of class / Anne S. Lewinson -- Transforming urban landscapes : soccer fields as sites of urban sociability in the agglomeration of Dakar / Susann Baller -- Narrating the African city from the diaspora : Lagos as a trope in Ben Okri and Chika Unigwe's short stories / Ayo Kehinde -- The city beyond the border : the urban worlds of Duiker, Mpe and Vera / Meg Samuelson -- Governing the city? South Africa's struggle to deal with urban immigrants after apartheid / Caroline Kihato -- Cinema and the edgy city : Johannesburg, carjacking, and the postmetropolis / Albert Fu and Martin J Murray -- Visual fragments of Kinshasa / Fassil Demissie.
Summary:
"The book focuses on contemporary African cities, caught in the contradiction of an imperial past and postcolonial present. The essays explore the cultural role of colonial architecture and urbanism in the production of meanings: in the inscription of power and discipline, as well as in the dynamic construction of identities"--Publisher's description.
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