African Urbanisms
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Co-authored editorial and guest edited by Camaren Peter:Perspectives Periodical Series (No 3, 2012) by Heinrich-Boll Stiftung
This book demonstrates the insights that literature brings to transdisciplinary urban studies, and particularly to the study of cities of the South. Starting from the claim staked by mining capital in the late nineteenth century and its... more
The high profile attributed to African urban economies in the global market, the promise of the evergreen ‘development project’ and the contradictions produced by the rapid urbanization process contribute to make African cities important... more
Citation: Pieterse, E. (2017) “The City in Sub-Saharan Africa”, in: Short, J.R. (ed) A Research Agenda for Cities. London and New York: Sage.
As many translocal and cross-border traders, mukheristas cover thousands of miles every week to supply urban markets, thus feeding themselves, their families and the cities they connect. After an intensive field work travelling with... more
The general outlines of Benin City have not changed during past centuries until the beginning of the 1970s. The town is divided into two parts, i.e. to the north Orenokhua and to the south Ogbe. Orenokhua once housed the quarters of the... more
The general outlines of Benin City have not changed during past centuries until the beginning of the 1970s. The town is divided into two parts, i.e. to the north Orenokhua and to the south Ogbe. Orenokhua once housed the quarters of the... more
Mozambique is located on the East coast of Southern Africa with a population of around 24 million inhabitants living in an area of approximately 812.379 km². The capital and the larger city in the country is Maputo, known as Lourenço... more
Out of the thirty cities with the highest growth rate, twenty-four are African. It’s just the beginning of an urban transition in Africa that is forecasted to take almost eighty years, compared to the two hundred years that it took in... more
There is a certain ‘othering’ when cities in the African continent are presented. Literature on cities in Africa is saturated by narratives by ‘explorers and scholars’ from the north, often decades past their youth. Very few, if any,... more
There is a certain ‘othering’ when cities in the African continent are presented. Literature on cities in Africa is saturated by narratives by ‘explorers and scholars’ from the north, often decades past their youth. Very few, if any,... more
There is a certain ?othering? when cities in the African continent are presented. Literature on cities in Africa is saturated by narratives by ?explorers and scholars? from the north, often decades past their youth. Very few, if any,... more
The general outlines of Benin City have not changed during past centuries until the beginning of the 1970s. The town is divided into two parts, i.e. to the north Orenokhua and to the south Ogbe. Orenokhua once housed the quarters of the... more
Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) can be identified as a urban region with 3 million inhabitants exploding with a growth rate running since more than 10 years around 4-5% per year and the 80% of the population living in informal settlements. lts... more
This chapter reviews the processes and findings from the alternative infrastructure work stream within the larger international, trans-disciplinary workshop Transforming Johannesburg: Reshaping Socio-ecological Landscapes Through... more
SPECIAL FEATURE: (Re)imagining Chinese Spaces in Urban Africa. Dialogues across the Built and the Lived
Full citation: Pieterse, E. (2018) “Reconstructing / Ricostruendo. Edgar Pieterse in conversation with Elena Motisi”, in: Njami, S., Motisi, E. and Corraini, E. (eds.) African Metropolis. An Imaginary City. Rome: MAXXI, the National... more
East-Africa is one of the least urbanized regions in the world, but living one of the fastest urbanization. Its urban history has roots in the cosmopolitan Swahili culture and common experiences related to British and German colonialism... more