Cities in sub-Saharan Africa are currently confronted with a multitude, and hitherto
unexperienced, magnitude of transformative phenomena such as rising inequality …

As urbanization of the world's population grows at an ever-increasing pace, the need to
understand the effects of globalization on cities is at the forefront of urban studies …

In this highly original work, Mary Njeri Kinyanjui explores the trajectory of women's
movement from the margins of urbanization into the centres of business activities in Nairobi …

Advancing global urbanism depends upon making Africa's cities a more dominant part of the
global urban narrative. Constructing a more legitimate research agenda for African cities …

As informal commerce has grown to become the lifeblood of African cities, street trade—
among the largest sub-groups in the informal economy—has become a visible but contested …

Intonations tells the story of how Angola's urban residents in the late colonial period (roughly
1945–74) used music to talk back to their colonial oppressors and, more importantly, to …

This article forms the introduction of a special issue on the relation between dynamics of
violent conflict and urbanisation in Central and Eastern Africa. The aim of this collection of …

Rapid urban population growth in Sub-Saharan Western Africa has important
environmental, infrastructural and social impacts. Due to the low availability of reliable …

Cities, Change, and Conflict was one of the first texts to embrace the perspective of political
economy as its main explanatory framework, and then complement it with the rich …

How and why does order emerge after conflict? What does it mean in the context of the
twenty-first century post-colonial city? From Kabul, Kigali and Kinshasa to Baghdad and …