1st Edition
The African Metropolis Struggles over Urban Space, Citizenship, and Rights to the City
Introduction, Kefa M. Otiso
Part I: The Politics of Space and Patterns of Segregation and Marginalization
1. Understanding the Zongo: Processes of Scoio-Spatial Marginalization in Ghana, Emily Anne Williamson
2. Analytical Views on Past and Present Official and Cultural Narratives of Asmara, Mussa Idris
3. ‘Urban Man in Jos’: Growth, Transiting Power and Authority in a Conflict Prone City, Henry Gyang Mang
4. The Rise, Fall, and Reemergence of Ponte City, Gregory Marinic
5. Urban Renewal Schemes and the Plight of Internally Displaced Persons in Nigeria: A Study of Oke Ilu-Eri, Bamidele Omotunde Alabi
6. Issues and Challenges in the Urban Renewal Programme of Lagos State, Adedotun Moses Atilade
Part II: Everyday Claims to Space and Rights
7. Informal Citizens? Residents’ Perceptions of Space and Place in a South African Informal Settlement, Melissa Kelly
8. Human Spaces and Urban Livelihoods: Language use in Makoko Slum Settlement, Mojisola Shodipe
9. The Unheralded Politics of Urban Spaces in Nigeria: Case of City Prostitution and Precarious Livelihood, Obinna Innocent Ihunna
10. Conflicts and Urban Dwellers in Jos: Issues in Rights to City, Larab Tangshak Ayuba and David Nyam Ajiji
11. Modernizing Makadara Gardens: Development and the Struggle for Urban Space in Kenya, Caleb Edwin Owen
Biography
Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities, and a Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.
Bisola Falola studies spatial and social inequality as a researcher in the Department of Geography and the Environment at the University of Texas, Austin, USA.
