The arts of citizenship in African cities : infrastructures and spaces of belonging

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The arts of citizenship in African cities : infrastructures and spaces of belonging

edited by Mamadou Diouf and Rosalind Fredericks

(Africa connects / Garth Myers and Martin J. Murray, series editors)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2014

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"... product of a conference organized at Columbia University from May 6 to 7, 2011 ... as part of an annual event series organized by the CGT."--Acknowledgments

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

  • Too many things to do : social dimensions of city-making in Africa / AbdouMaliq Simone
  • The funeral in the village : urbanites' shifting imaginations of belonging, mobility and community / Peter Geschiere
  • Citizenship and civility in peri-urban Mozambique / Juan Obarrio
  • Dealing with the prince over Lagos : pentecostal arts of citizenship / Ruth Marshall
  • The road to redemption : performing pentecostal citizenship in Lagos / Adedamola Osinulu
  • The old man is dead : hip hop and the arts of citizenship of Senegalese youth / Rosalind Fredericks
  • Beautifying Brazzaville : arts of citizenship in the Congo / Rémy Bazenguissa-Ganga
  • Representing an African city and urban elite : the nightclubs, dance halls, and red-light district of interwar Accra / Jinny Prais
  • Seeing dirt in Dar es Salaam : sanitation, waste, and citizenship in the postcolonial city / Emily Brownell
  • "Ambivalent cosmopolitans"? : Senegalese and Malian migrants in Johannesburg / Christine Ludl
  • Walls and white elephants : oil, infrastructure, and the materiality of citizenship in urban equatorial Guinea / Hannah Appel
  • Nigerian modernity and the city : Lagos 1960-1980 / Giles Omezi

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