The last decade has seen a growing consensus around two aspects of Africa's changing
demographic and socio-economic profile and their impact on the continent's development …

The cultural formation of the academy and ancestral hall buildings in Guangdong have
similarities and are closely related to the influence of the patriarchal system. Taking kinship …

The police occupy a central role in the functioning of the state by being tasked with
upholding security, law and order. Across the African continent, the public has little trust in …

The rapidly expanding Mozambican suburb of Inhapossa is very much the product of urban
precarity. Indeed, most people only end up there after having exhausted other options …

The restoration of precolonial authorities in contemporary Uganda has inspired the revival of
practices constitutive of local identities. The article focuses on the role of (re) distribution in …

This book introduces readers to the anthropology of urban life in Africa, showing what
ethnography can teach us about African city dwellers' own notions, practices, and …

With high urbanisation rates, cities in sub-Saharan Africa are contending with food
insecurity. Urban studies scholars have approached the issue mainly from the perspective of …

Pipeline is a low-income, high-rise-tenement settlement in Nairobi's marginalized East and
one of sub-Saharan Africa's most densely populated estates. An aspirational place where …

This chapter urges writers of critical agrarian studies to pay more analytical attention to
kinship, which is either ignored or inadequately analysed and theorized. This concern …

A comprehensive zoning plan has been under way for more than a decade for an urban
informal settlement in Bobo‐Dioulasso, Burkina Faso. In this article I explore the narratives …