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245 00 Refractions of the National, the Popular and the Global in
       African Cities /|cedited by Simon Bekker, Sylvia Croese 
       and Edgar Pieterse. 
264  1 Cape Town, South Africa :|bAfrican Minds,|c2021. 
264  3 Baltimore, Md. :|bProject MUSE, |c2021. 
264  4 |c©2021. 
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505 00 |tPreface /|rGöran Therborn --|tIntroduction /|rSimon 
       Bekker, Sylvia Croese and Edgar Pieterse --|gPart I.
       |tNational in urban Africa.|tNational projects in a 
       postcolonial capital city : The example of Yaounde /|rJean
       -Pierre Togolo ;|tLip service : How voices from informal 
       settlements were sidelined during the first decade of 
       local democracy in South Africa /|rLiela Groenewald ;
       |tCentralised urban governance in the Greater Cairo City 
       Region : A critical understanding of key challenges and 
       responses /|rAmr Abdelaal, Hajer Awatta, Omar Nagati, 
       Salwa Salman and Marwa Shykhon ;|tTraditional chiefs and 
       traditional authority in Kinshasa /|rPhilippe Ibaka Sangu 
       --|gPart II.|tPopular in urban Africa.|tLocal government 
       as the stage for resistance : Strategies and tactics of 
       opposing mega projects in Gauteng /|rMargot Rubin ;
       |tPopular protests and the limits of civil society in the 
       struggle for democracy in Zimbabwe, 2011 to 2016 /
       |rNgonidzashe Marongwe ;|t'We will be back to the street!'
       : Protest and the 'empires' of water in Nairobi /|rWangui 
       Kimari --|gPart III.|tGlobal in urban Africa.|tAfrica's 
       new Dubai? Intersections between the global and the local 
       in the redevelopment of the Bay of Luanda, Angola /
       |rSylvia Croese ;|tUrban governance and smart future 
       cities in Nigeria : Lagos flagship projects as 
       springboard? /|rMuyiwa Elijah Agunbiade, Oluwafemi Olajide
       and Hakeem Bishi ;|tGovernance of Addis Ababa Light Rail 
       Transit /|rMeseret Kassahun ;|tConclusion : African cities
       in the world of today and tomorrow /|rGöran Therborn and 
       Alan Mabin. 
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520    "Case studies of metropolitan cities in nine African 
       countries - from Egypt in the north to three in West and 
       Central Africa, two in East Africa and three in Southern 
       Africa - make up the empirical foundation of this 
       publication. The interrelated themes addressed in these 
       chapters - the national influence on urban development, 
       the popular dynamics that shape urban development and the 
       global currents on urban development - make up its 
       framework. All authors and editors are African, as is the 
       publisher. The only exception is Göran Therborn whose 
       recent book, Cities of Power, served as motivation for 
       this volume. Accordingly, the issue common to all case 
       studies is the often conflictual powers that are exercised
       by national, global and popular forces in the development 
       of these African cities. Rather than locating the case 
       studies in an exclusively African historical context, the 
       focus is on the trajectories of the postcolonial city 
       (with the important exception of Addis Ababa with a non-
       colonial history that has granted it a special place in 
       African consciousness). These trajectories enable 
       comparisons with those of postcolonial cities on other 
       continents. This, in turn, highlights the fact that Africa
       - today, the least urbanised continent on an increasingly 
       urbanised globe - is in the thick of processes of large-
       scale urban transformation, illustrated in diverse ways by
       the case studies that make up the foundation of this 
       publication"--Publisher's description. 
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