This book presents new and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of
African urban history and culture. Moving between precolonial, colonial,
and contemporary urban spaces, it covers the major regions, religions,
and urban societies of sub-Saharan Africa.
African Urban Spaces in Historical Perspective presents new and
interdisciplinary approaches to the study of African urban history and
culture. It presents original research and integrates historical
methodologies with those of anthropology, geography, literature, art,
and architecture. Moving between precolonial, colonial, and contemporary
urban spaces, it covers the major regions, religions, and cultural
influences of sub-Saharan Africa. The themes include Islam and
Christianity, architecture, migration, globalization, social and
physical decay, identity, race relations, politics, and development.
This book elaborates on not only what makes the study of African urban
spaces unique within urban historiography, it also offers
an-encompassing and up-to-date study of the subject and inserts Africa
into the growing debate on urban history and culture throughout the
world.
The opportunities provided by the urban milieu are endless and each
study opens new potential avenues of research. This book explores some
of those avenues and lays the groundwork on which new studies can build.
Contributors: Maurice NyamangaAmutabi, Catherine Coquery Vidrovitch,
Mark Dike DeLancey, Thomas Ngomba Ekali, Omar A. Eno, Doug T. Feremenga,
Laurent Fourchard, James Genova, Fatima Muller-Friedman, Godwin R.
Murunga, Kefa M. Otiso, Michael Ralph, Jeremy Rich, Eric Ross, Corinne
Sandwith, Wessel Visser.
Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the
Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the
University of Texas at Austin; Steven J.Salm is Assistant Professor of
History, Xavier University of Louisiana.
