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Capital cities in Africa - Power and powerlessness (Paperback)
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Capital cities in Africa - Power and powerlessness (Paperback)
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List price R250
Loot Price R195
Discovery Miles 1 950
You Save R55 (22%)
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Capital cities today remain central to both nations and states.
They host centres of political power, not only national, but in
some cases regional and global as well, thus offering major avenues
to success, wealth and privilege. For these reasons capitals
simultaneously become centres of 'counter-power', locations of
high-stakes struggles between the government and the opposition.
This volume focuses on capital cities in nine sub-Saharan African
countries, and traces how the power vested in them has evolved
through different colonial backgrounds, radically different kinds
of regimes after independence, waves of popular protest, explosive
population growth and in most cases stunted economic development.
Starting at the point of national political emancipation, each case
study explores the complicated processes of nation-state building
through its manifestation in the 'urban geology' of the city –
its architecture, iconography, layout and political use of urban
space. Although the evolution of each of these cities is different,
they share a critical demographic feature: an extraordinarily rapid
process of urbanisation that is more politically than economically
driven. Overwhelmed by the inevitable challenges resulting from
this urban sprawl, the governments seated in most of these capital
cities are in effect both powerful – wielding power over their
populace – and powerless, lacking power to implement their plans
and to provide for their inhabitants. In its concentration on urban
forms of multi-layered power, symbolic as well as material, Capital
Cities in Africa cuts a new path in the rich field of studies
related to African cities and politics. It will be of interest to
scholars in a wide range of disciplines, from political history, to
sociology, to geography, architecture and urban planning.
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