Africa in urban history / Ambe J. Njoh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Njoh, Ambe J., author.

Series:

Elements in global urban history, 2632-3206.

Cambridge elements. Element in global history, 2632-3206

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urbanization--Social aspects--Africa.

Urbanization.

Cities and towns--Africa.

Cities and towns.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (82 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025.

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.

Contents:

Background and foundational matter

Cities of African antiquity

Ancient African cities

The era of discovery towns

Colonial cities

Colonial company towns

Postcolonial cities.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Jan 2025).

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781009446860

100944686X

9781009446822

1009446827

9781009446839

1009446835