Urban africa : changing contours of survival in the city / edited by AbdouMaliq Simone and Abouhani Abdelghani.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction : urban processes and change /​ Abdoumaliq Simone
2. Urban policies in Cairo : from speeches on new cities to the adjustment practices of ordinary city dwellers /​ Benedicte Florin
3. Feasts : panoramas in town - the spaces and times of the moulids of Cairo /​ Anna Madoeuf
4. Kisangani : a city at its lowest ebb /​ Jean Omasombo
5. The city centre : a shifting concept in the history of Addis Ababa /​ Bahru Zewde
6. At the limits of possibility : working notes on a relational model of urban politics /​ Edgar Pieterse
7. Life in a high-density urban area : Anguwar Mai Gwado in Zaria /​ Mohammed-Bello Yunusa
8. Ethnicity and the dynamics of city politics : the case of Jos /​ Victor A. O. Adetula
9. Urban development and urban informalities : Pikine, Senegal /​ Mohamadou Abdoul
10. Formal and decentralized financing of housing : Operation 200,000 Houses, Marrakesh /​ Mohamed Gheris.

Publisher description: Amidst emergent cultural formations in Dakar, Addis Ababa, Cape Town, Kisangani, Jos, Zaria, Cairo, and Marakesh, this collection focuses on diverse ways Africans negotiate novel spatial practices, political economic processes, and social relations that entangle place, identity and power in urban sites. While historically familiar patterns linking the country and city remain, these sedimentations are reworked through the incessant remaking of virtual, real, and moral economies where African agency animates diverse urban formations. African cities are made meaningful through the geographically uneven dynamics of globalization that articulate with locally specific histories, cultural practices, and political contingencies.