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 and its
accompanying implications for urban planning. While women in much
of Africa have struggled to gain urban citizenship and continue to
be weighed down by poor education, low income and confinement to
domestic responsibilities due to patriarchic norms, a new form of
urban dynamism - partly informed by the informal economy - is now
enabling them to manage poverty, create jobs and link to the
circuits of capital and labour. Relying on social ties,
reciprocity, sharing and collaboration, women's informal
'solidarity entrepreneurialism' is taking them away from the
margins of business activity and catapulting them into the centre.
Bringing together key issues of gender, economic informality and
urban planning in Africa, Kinyanjui demonstrates that women have
become a critical factor in the making of a postcolonial city.
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