African Cities Reader
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IRM de la ville de Douala - Maud de la Chapelle
Urban Sahara from the Sky: How Global Capitalism Fixes the Dunes - Marion Broquère, Armelle Choplin, Simon Nancy & En Haut!
High Class Shanty Towns - Jean Christophe Lanquetin
This Sea Shall Be Uprooted - Jumoke Verissimo, Adolphus Opara
Visions for the National Tear-ter of Nigeria: Four conversations and Seven performative pamphlets -
Seven Performative Pamphlets - Ayodele Arigbabu, Hunter and Gatherer Collective
The Death Metaphor - Jahman Anikulapo
A conversation between Jelili Atiku and Ahmed Yerima -
A conversation between Jude Anogwih and Ayodele Arigbabu -
A conversation between Professor Muyiwa Falaiye and Mudi Yahaya -
Reluctantly Loud: Interventions in the History of a Land Occupation - Koni Benson, Faeza Meyer
Under Nelson Mandela Boulevard: A Story About Cape Town’s Tanzanian Stowaways - Sean Christie, David Southwood
Living Dangerously in Petroluanda - António Andrade Tomás, Rui Carlos Afonso
City Building in Post-Conflict, Post-Socialist Luanda: Burying the past with phantasmagorias of the future - Anne Pitcher, Marissa Moorman
Dispossessed Vigils: Mourning and Regeneration in Inner-City Johannesburg - Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon
An Etymology of Slum Names - Göran Dahlberg
Not Only Our Land but Also Our Souls - Andile Mngxitama
The Way Back Home - Niq Mhlongo
Remapping Buru Buru - Billy Kahora, Boniface Mwangi
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Anti-Teleology - Dominique Malaquais
Airport Theatre, African Villain - Martin Kimani
The Car Doctors of Maamobi - Manu Herbstein
Pilgrimages - Intro
Pilgrimages: Jambo - Victor LaValle
Hargeisa Snapshots - Doreen Baingana
Kin La Belle: In the Clear Light of Song and Silence - Yvonne Owuor
Obstacles - Anna Kostreva
Tracks - MADEYOULOOK/Santu Mofokeng
‘Here I Am Nobody’: Rethinking Urban Governance, Sovereignty and Power - Caroline Kihato
Anti-Iconic: The Photography of David Adjaye - Sean O’ Toole in conversation with David Adjaye
Las Vegas: The Last African City - Chris Abani
Oil City: Petro-landscapes and Sustainable Futures - Michael Watts/Ed Kashi
Beira Through The Looking Glass - Sean Christie
Avalon in Two Monuments - Khulile Nxumalo
Avalon - Nicole Turner
The Psychogeography of Loose Associations - Sherif El-Azma
Tailor - Jonny Steinberg
Adrift and Exposed - Iain Chambers/Isaac Julien
Mining Sounds - Emeka Ogboh
Every Day is for The Thief: An Excerpt - Teju Cole
Harare North: An Excerpt - Brian Chikwava
Towards a Politics of Mobility - Tim Cresswell
Straight, No Chaser - Nick Mwaluko
Ground/Overground/Underground - Mowoso
Yeoville Studio: Negotiating the Line Between Research and Activism - Claire Benit-Gbaffou
Spinning Translocal - Jenny Mbaye
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Lagos: A Pilgrimage in Notations - Chris Abani
Of Tamarind & Cosmopolitanism - Nuruddin Farah
Dagga - Rustum Kozain
Urbanism beyond Architecture - Vyjayanthi Rao, in conversation with Filip de Boeck & Abdou Maliq Simone
Sape Project: 2006 - 2009 - Jean-Christophe Lanquetin
Johannesburg - Jyoti Mistry
Ibadan, Soutin and the Puzzle of Bower's Tower - Akin Adesokan
Three Poems - Gabeba Baderoon
Closer Than This - Karen Press
The Book of Chameleons - José Eduardo Agualusa
Three Women, She is Alone / Survival of the stars / 2AM transit in Addis - Allan Kolski Horwitz
The Devil's Comma - James Yuma
Terror and the City - Ashraf Jamal
Blood Money: A Douala Chronicle - Dominique Malaquais
Quel Est L'Endroit Idéal? - Christian Hanussek and Salifou Lindou
The Colour of the Night - Achal Prabhala
Blood Money - Valentine Cascarino
Koltan Kills Kids - --
"No Grave Cannot Hold My Body Down" - Annie Paul
Angels in Winter - Teju Cole
Of Goats and Great Hope - Fiona Moola
Rhythms of a Road, Voices of an Ethnographer - Vanessa Ulia Dantas e Sá
Vocabularies of the Visceral and Expressions of Multiple Practices - Hobbs/Neustetter
Planning for Chaos - Ismail Farouk
D.I.Y. - Lesley Naa Norle Lokko
Lagos Underground - Jeremy Weate
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Published by the African Centre for Cities & Chimurenga Magazine
With the kind support of Rockerfeller Foundation
Editors: Edgar Pieterse & Ntone Edjabe
Project Manager: Greer Valley
Proofreader: Karen Press
Website and Publication Design: François Naudé
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