1st Edition

Postcolonial African Cities Imperial Legacies and Postcolonial Predicament

Edited By Fassil Demissie Copyright 2008
156 Pages
by Routledge

156 Pages
by Routledge

156 Pages
by Routledge

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. It is in these new dense urban spaces, with all their contradictions,... Read more

Imperial Legacies and Post-Colonial Predicament: 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 Post-Colonial 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 & 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

Biography

Fassil Demissie is Associate Professor, DePaul University, USA. He is the editor of African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal, and on the editorial board of African Identities: A Journal of Economics, Culture and Society (both published by Routledge). He recently edited Postcolonial African Cities.