AbdouMaliq Simone is Assistant Director of the Graduate Program in International Affairs at New School University. He is the author of In Whose Image? Political Islam and Urban Practices in Sudan and, with David Hecht, Invisible Governance: The Art of African Micropolitics.

“For the City Yet to Come is about much more than the planning and politics of cities in Africa. AbdouMaliq Simone lays out a challenging, intellectually wide-ranging and yet very grounded consideration of present and possible dispensations of social life in Africa, maintaining a delicate balance between attention to the improvisational and creative within African urban spaces and critique of the sufferings and injustices of city life.”-Timothy Burke, author of Lifebuoy Men, Lux Women: Commodification, Consumption, and Cleanliness in Modern Zimbabwe “This is by far the best book about African cities as well as a theoretically provocative experiment in urban criticism. Using a combination of both large-scale and focused analyses, Abdoumaliq Simone brings to light the nuances, shades, and imaginative universes of contemporary African urban life that have eluded most analysts. In the process, he profoundly renews our understanding of the politics of everyday life.”-Achille Mbembe, author of On the Postcolony

• Acknowledgments ixIntroduction: Remaking African Cities 11. The Informal: The Projet de Ville in Pikine, Senegal 212. The Invisible: Winterveld, South Africa 633. The Spectral: Assembling Douala, Cameroon 924. Movement: The Zawiyyah as the City 1185. Reconciling Engagement and Belonging: Some Matters of History 1366. The Production and Management of Urban Resources 1787. Cities and Change 213Notes 245References 269Index 291

AbdouMaliq Simone is Assistant Director of the Graduate Program in International Affairs at New School University. He is the author of In Whose Image? Political Islam and Urban Practices in Sudan and, with David Hecht, Invisible Governance: The Art of African Micropolitics.

“For the City Yet to Come is about much more than the planning and politics of cities in Africa. AbdouMaliq Simone lays out a challenging, intellectually wide-ranging and yet very grounded consideration of present and possible dispensations of social life in Africa, maintaining a delicate balance between attention to the improvisational and creative within African urban spaces and critique of the sufferings and injustices of city life.”-Timothy Burke, author of Lifebuoy Men, Lux Women: Commodification, Consumption, and Cleanliness in Modern Zimbabwe “This is by far the best book about African cities as well as a theoretically provocative experiment in urban criticism. Using a combination of both large-scale and focused analyses, Abdoumaliq Simone brings to light the nuances, shades, and imaginative universes of contemporary African urban life that have eluded most analysts. In the process, he profoundly renews our understanding of the politics of everyday life.”-Achille Mbembe, author of On the Postcolony

• Acknowledgments ixIntroduction: Remaking African Cities 11. The Informal: The Projet de Ville in Pikine, Senegal 212. The Invisible: Winterveld, South Africa 633. The Spectral: Assembling Douala, Cameroon 924. Movement: The Zawiyyah as the City 1185. Reconciling Engagement and Belonging: Some Matters of History 1366. The Production and Management of Urban Resources 1787. Cities and Change 213Notes 245References 269Index 291

AbdouMaliq Simone is Assistant Director of the Graduate Program in International Affairs at New School University. He is the author of In Whose Image? Political Islam and Urban Practices in Sudan and, with David Hecht, Invisible Governance: The Art of African Micropolitics.

“For the City Yet to Come is about much more than the planning and politics of cities in Africa. AbdouMaliq Simone lays out a challenging, intellectually wide-ranging and yet very grounded consideration of present and possible dispensations of social life in Africa, maintaining a delicate balance between attention to the improvisational and creative within African urban spaces and critique of the sufferings and injustices of city life.”-Timothy Burke, author of Lifebuoy Men, Lux Women: Commodification, Consumption, and Cleanliness in Modern Zimbabwe “This is by far the best book about African cities as well as a theoretically provocative experiment in urban criticism. Using a combination of both large-scale and focused analyses, Abdoumaliq Simone brings to light the nuances, shades, and imaginative universes of contemporary African urban life that have eluded most analysts. In the process, he profoundly renews our understanding of the politics of everyday life.”-Achille Mbembe, author of On the Postcolony

• Acknowledgments ixIntroduction: Remaking African Cities 11. The Informal: The Projet de Ville in Pikine, Senegal 212. The Invisible: Winterveld, South Africa 633. The Spectral: Assembling Douala, Cameroon 924. Movement: The Zawiyyah as the City 1185. Reconciling Engagement and Belonging: Some Matters of History 1366. The Production and Management of Urban Resources 1787. Cities and Change 213Notes 245References 269Index 291