TY -  JOUR
PY -  2017
SN -  2239-6330
T1 -  African Cities: Material Life and Post-Coloniality
JO -  TERRITORIO
DA -  9/15/2017 12:00:00 AM
DO -  10.3280/TR2017-081004
UR -  http://www.francoangeli.it/Riviste/Scheda_rivista.aspx?idArticolo=60061
AU -  Freund, Bill
SP -  23
EP -  27
IS -  81
VL -  
LA -  EN
AB -  African cities have become a major topic of social science research, a dramatic reversal in a generation of the situation where African studies had long been dominated by rurally based intellectual constructs. Clearly the urban maelstrom is the place where new identities are forged today. The creative cultural vitality in these cities as well as the apparent absence of material infrastructure characteristic of classic urbanism poses a challenge to analysis. Structural adjustment policies have done little to develop Africa but they have created conditions in which these mineral or other extractive activities can be performed and intensified once again by multi-national companies (not necessarily Western and no longer in a colonial integument) in a profitable manner in many countries in the continent. The city is where powerful influences from outside are refracted, reflected and
recreated in local garb
PB -  FrancoAngeli
ER -