African Cities

Francesca Locatelli, Ph.D. (2005), SOAS, is Lecturer in African History at the University of Edinburgh. Her research interests concern urbanism, crime, migration and border spaces. She is currently working on a monograph on the social history of Asmara (Eritrea) from 1890 to 1952. Paul Nugent, Ph.D. (1991), SOAS, is Professor of Comparative African History and Director of the Centre of African Studies at the University of Edinburgh. He has published three monographs, including Africa Since Independence (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), and has a particular interest in border spaces. Paul is the current President of AEGIS.

Review in: African Studies Review Vol. 53 No. 1.‘This book offers further evidence of the increasing interconnectivity and vibrancy of African studies across Western Europe. It emerged from papers presented to a themed conference in Scotland in 2006 of the Africa–Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (AEGIS), the third book in the past five years to be published in AEGIS’s book series with Brill. ….. Moreover, this book’s intellectual rigor and regional breadth—both in its stretch across sub-Saharan Africa and its blending of emergent British, French, Belgian, Portuguese, and Italian traditions of African studies— make it a welcome addition to the expanding bookcase of African urban studies’.

• CONTENTSFigures, Tables and Maps ................................................................. viiIntroduction ........................................................................................ 1Francesca Locatelli and Paul NugentHinges and Fringes: Conceptualising the Peri-urban in Central Africa ..........Theodore TrefonAngolan Cities: Urban (Re)segregation? ........................................ 37Cristina Udelsmann RodriguesWho Control the Streets? Crime, ‘Communities’ and the State in Post-Apartheid Johannesburg ........... 55Claire Bénit-Gbaff ouAfrican Cities: Competing Claims on Urban Land ..................... 81Paul JenkinsContesting for Space in an Urban Centre: The Omo Onile Syndrome in Lagos ......... 109Rufus T. Akinyele‘Water Wars’ in Kumasi, Ghana ...................................................... 135Tom C. McCaskieCoping with Water Scarcity: The Social and Environmental Impact of the 1982–1992 Droughts on Makokoba Township, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe .................................................................... 157Muchaparara MusemwaDealing with ‘Strangers’: Allocating Urban Space to Migrants in Nigeria and French West Africa, End ofthe Nineteenth Century to 1960 ................................................ 187Laurent FourchardBeyond the Campo Cintato: Prostitutes, Migrants and ‘Criminals’ in Colonial Asmara (Eritrea), 1890–1941 ..... 219Francesca LocatelliThe Urban Melting Pot in East Africa: Ethnicity and Urban Growth in Kampala and Dar es Salaam ......... 241Deborah Fahy BrycesonPopular Music, Identity and Politics in a Colonial Urban Space: The Case of Mwanza, Tanzania (1945–1961).. 261Maria SurianoList of Contributors ........................................................................... 291Index .................................................................................................... 299