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Urban Dynamics in Black Africa - An Interdisciplinary Approach (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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Urban Dynamics in Black Africa - An Interdisciplinary Approach (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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Urban Dynamics in Black Africa presents a succession of worlds
where we can study the development and the crystallization of major
social change. The authors trace the development of former
villages, towns, and colonial outposts into major cities within the
international community. Open-air markets continue their trading
beside modern department stores as individual Africans create
contemporary lives from old and new. William J. and Judith L.
Hanna, in this unique work, introduce new data and the methods of
dependency theory, class and gender analysis; they offer
connections between Africa's internal dynamics, its legacy of
imperialism, and the international political and economic arena. At
the same time, the book provides a model for studying the evolution
of political institutions. Urban Dynamics in Black Africa
illustrates how social classes modify and are modified by existing
cultural forms. The book examines Africa in its independence by
contrasting development and dependency, role adaptability and
conflict, in a powerful conceptual matrix. Detailing the urban
conditions that exist throughout Africa as well as their costs and
benefits, this work shows how contemporary political conflict in
urban Africa is based upon both ethnic and non-ethnic ties; and how
these ethnic and non-ethnic ties serve as the bases of a system of
political integration unique to poly-ethnic communities. As a
synthesis of the relevant available knowledge on African towns and
town-dwellers, this book is concerned primarily with the effects of
external intervention and socioeconomic modernization upon the
birth and development of Africa's new towns and the rapid expansion
of its old ones. It considers the impact of migration and town life
upon Africans.
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