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Journal Article
Introduction Urban kinship: the micro-politics of proximity and relatedness in African cities
2018
Overview
In combination with the projected population growth on the continent, concerns are raised about the challenges that these expansions will pose to social services, urban infrastructures and labour markets, from Cairo to Cape Town and from Dar es Salaam to Dakar (UN Habitat 2014).[...]the sense of an explosively growing, uncontrollable urban landscape in Africa has been a dominant force in urban theory for decades, with - at times - alarmist undertones (Robinson 2010).[...]the recent scholarship on African cities as amorphous and revolutionary social spheres paradoxically tends to leave urban residents as voiceless as they are in the quantitative analyses of urbanization rates and infrastructural collapse.[...]of our engagements with their narratives and experiences, we therefore explore in this special issue how urban residents claim social and cultural continuity in the context of everyday life in African cities.
