Urban studies as a field is on the rise in Africa, environmental studies is a mainstay of
scholarship on or about the continent, and urban environments are increasingly central to …

Consider an image, a panel, painted in acrylic on wood, on the side of a barber's stand.
Such stands are a mainstay of cities in West and Central Africa. Here, a man can get his hair …

City dwellers in central Africa have been going through a long and exhausting phase of post-
colonial rupture. The last decades have been characterised by severe social and economic …

What kind of stuff makes cities? What sorts of relations between humans, materials,
infrastructures, animals, plans, substances, climates, machines, imaginaries, labours …

This paper explores one possible argument for how to respond to the epistemic troubles in
the production of knowledge about urban Africa. The problem I have in mind is the …

African urban hinterlands are fascinating spaces of imbalance where ordinary people have
imagined new constructions of space and time. On the basis of interdisciplinary field …

The past two decades have seen the development of a rich body of scholarship focusing on
South African urban settlements. An extensive narrative has emerged on the changing …

Africa, a continent of diversity and contrasts, is often perceived through news stories of
political unrest and humanitarian crisis. Documentaries on the wealth of natural resources …

The city of Johannesburg offers insights into urban governance and the interesting interplay
between managing the pressures in a rapidly urbanizing context, with the political …

As African societies urbanise, it becomes evident that they do so in ways that challenge
prevailing theories and models of urban dynamics. This paper surveys the literature of …