Taylor & Francis India: African Geography

By Mintesnot G. Woldeamanuel

This book critically assesses the complex urban issues, planning challenges and development opportunities of rapidly growing cities, using Addis Ababa as a case study. Just like other developing cities, Addis Ababa is undergoing numerous natural and policy-driven changes. This book analyses the…

Hardback – 2020-03-19 
Routledge
Routledge Contemporary Africa

Edited by Daniel E. Agbiboa

This collection of field-based case-studies examines the role and contributions of Africa’s informal public transport (also referred to as paratransit) to the production of city forms and urban economies, as well as the voices, experiences, and survival tactics of its poor and stigmatised workforce…

Paperback – 2020-03-11 
Routledge

Edited by Leo Charles Zulu, Cristina D'Alessandro

This book offers a multifaceted examination of Africa’s development into the post-2015 global agenda from a geographical perspective. As a diversified and highly applied discipline, geography has a lot to offer to global debates, nuanced analysis of problems on and the search for innovative…

Paperback – 2019-12-20 
Routledge

By Marius Pieterse

Rights-based Litigation, Urban Governance and Social Justice in South Africa considers the overlap between legal and everyday struggles for social and spatial justice in the particular context of Johannesburg, South Africa. Drawing from literature across disciplines of law, urban geography and…

Paperback – 2019-12-12
Routledge

Edited by Carlos Nunes Silva

This handbook contributes with new evidence and new insights to the on-going debate on the de-colonization of knowledge on urban planning in Africa. African cities grew rapidly since the mid-20th century, in part due to rising rural migration and rapid internal demographic growth that followed the…

Hardback – 2019-11-11
Routledge

By Derek F. Hayward, Julius S. Oguntoyinbo

Originally published in 1987, this book brings together information previously buried in specialist sources and makes it available to the student in a non-technical and well-illustrated synthesis. It builds a clear and detailed picture of the climates of West Africa, describing and explaining them…

Hardback – 2019-11-11
Routledge
Routledge Library Editions: Pollution, Climate and Change

Edited by Sithembiso Lindelihle Myeni, Andrew Okem

This book unpacks the political economy of government subsidised housing programmes in South Africa. Exploring government policy towards subsidised housing in South Africa, this edited collection analyses various programmes, their shortcomings and potential options to address these weaknesses in…

Hardback – 2019-08-27
Routledge
Routledge Studies on the Political Economy of Africa

Edited by Toyin Falola, Bisola Falola

On a planet where urbanization is rapidly expanding, nowhere is the growth more pronounced than in cities of the global South, and in particular, Africa. African metropolises are harbingers of the urban challenges that lie ahead as societies grapple with the fractured social, economic, and…

Paperback – 2019-07-05
Routledge
Global Africa

By Mariama Khan

This book interrogates the validity of longstanding claims that Gambians and Senegalese are 'one' people in two countries and explores how that claim intersects with the politics and development needs of the two countries. Half a century after independence, proponents of Senegambian unification…

Hardback – 2019-05-30
Routledge
Routledge Borderlands Studies

By Fiona Anciano, Laurence Piper

Why is dissatisfaction with local democracy endemic, despite the spread of new participatory institutions? This book argues that a key reason is the limited power of elected local officials, especially to produce the City. City Hall lacks control over key aspects of city decision-making, especially…

Paperback – 2019-05-14
Routledge

Edited by Inocent Moyo, Christopher Changwe Nshimbi

This book looks at the ways African borders impact war and conflict, as well as the ways continental integration could contribute towards cooperation, peace and well-being in Africa. African borders or borderlands can be a source of problems and opportunity. There is often a historical, geospatial…

Hardback – 2019-04-30
Routledge
Border Regions Series

Edited by Melissa Tandiwe Myambo

With the spread of capitalism - a socio-economic system that produces both wealth and poverty simultaneously - the spatial dynamics of the "global(izing)" city are creating more division between social classes, not less. This means that in the 21st-century, large cities around the world exhibit…

Hardback – 2018-10-30
Routledge
Routledge Contemporary South Africa