Previous page | New search |
The free AfricaBib App for Android is available here
Periodical article | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | Urban Africana II |
Author: | Peil, Margaret |
Year: | 1976 |
Periodical: | Cultures et développement |
Volume: | 8 |
Issue: | 3 |
Pages: | 533-538 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Africa |
Subjects: | urban society literature reviews (form) |
Abstract: | Reviewed are four books on African urban life. Two are limited to Nairobi and Kumba; two take a wider view of the urbanization process. The book of M.H. Ross, Grass Roots in an African City: Political Behavior in Nairobi, Cambridge, Mass., and London, 1975, is particularly useful for its analysis of rural-urban contacts, the nature of political response by people of varying socio-econimic level and political sources of ethnic conflict The 'socio-anthropological enquire' of C.S.I.J. Lagerberg an G.J. Wilms, Profile of a Commercial Town (Kumba) in West-Cameroon, Tilburg, 1974, is naive and marred by translation errors. Town and Country in Central and Eastern Africa, editor D. Parkin, London, 1975 has a comprehensive and highly competent introduction by Parkin in English and French; the paper which follow are all in English. Its main flaw is an unquestioning acceptance of the applicability of Frankian theory, especially as propounded by Samir Amin, to Africa. The paper come from the I.A.I. seminar in Lusaka 1972. J. Friedmann and R. Wulff The Urban Transition: Comparative Studies of Newly Industrializing Societies, London, 1976, deal with the literature on urbanization in Africa, Asia and Latin America. |