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| Title: | Associational Life in African Cities: Popular Responses to the Urban Crisis |
| Editors: | Tostensen, Arne Tvedten, Inge Vaa, Mariken |
| Chapter(s): | Present |
| Year: | 2001 |
| Pages: | 324 |
| Language: | English |
| City of publisher: | Uppsala |
| Publisher: | Nordiska Afrikainstitutet |
| ISBN: | 9171064656 |
| Geographic term: | Africa |
| Subjects: | social networks associations urban society |
| Abstract: | This book is about the multitude of associations that have emerged in African cities in recent years. In many cases, they are a response to mounting poverty, failing infrastructure and services, and more generally, weak and abdicating urban governments. Some associations are new, in other cases existing organizations are taking on new tasks. Associations may be neighbourhood-based, others may be city-wide and based on professional groupings or a shared ideology or religion. Still others have an ethnic base. After an introductory chapter by the editors, the sixteen contributions are grouped into the following sections: Coping through informal networks; Religion and identity; Land and housing; Infrastructure and services; Emerging initiatives. Case studies are drawn from Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, Swaziland, Nigeria, Malawi, Ghana, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Cameroon, Congo, Egypt, Tanzania, South Africa, Angola and Namibia. Contributors: Jørgen Andreasen, Harri Englund, Bruce Frayne, Katherine V. Gough, Cheikh Gueye, Amin Y. Kamete II, Sarah Karirah Gitau, Ilda Laurenço-Lindell, Robert M. Mhamba, Miranda Miles, Susanna Myllylä, Yomi Oruwari, Wade Pendleton, Akiser Pomuti, Paul Robson, AbdouMaliq Simone, Warren Smit, Gabriel Tati, Colman Titus, Arne Tostensen, Inge Tvedten, Mariken Vaa, Paul W.K. Yankson. |
