Actors in fluid African urban environments endeavor to construct effective means to generate
collaborative social action, enforce collective responsibility, and deploy effective and …

This essay takes its point of departure in Lukole refugee camp in Northwestern Tanzania,
where close to one hundred thousand Burundian refugees kill time in a well-organized and …

This volume illuminates the complex and constantly shifting social dynamics of African city
making and human survival today. It explores how African urban dwellers have had to find …

A new taxonomy of placemaking is needed; concerns have been expressed about the
professionalization of placemaking through the proliferation of standards, zoning codes, and …

The following study seeks to analyze modes of imagining politics in contemporary Africa that
confer a central place to thoughts and practices of power as thoughts and practices of war …

Recent studies on urban governance have advanced our understanding of how governance
could become inclusive through community-based participation in urban development …

The process of urbanization in sub-Saharan Africa has elicited a variety of different reactions
and interpretations amongst researchers and casual observers alike. There is general …

Recent debates about sustainable development have shifted their focus from fixing
environmental problems in a technocratic and economic way to more fundamental changes …

Post-colonial Nairobi has experienced a rapid urbanization rate averaging 5 per cent per
annum from 1963 to the present. The planning framework inherited from the colonial regime …

RéSUMé La plupart des chroniques consacrées aux guerres africaines sous-estiment la
centralité que celles-ci ont fini par prendre dans la représentation que le sujet africain …