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This book presents new and interdisciplinary approaches to the
study of African urban history and culture. Moving between
precolonial, colonial, and contemporary urban spaces, it covers the
major regions, religions, and urban societies of sub-Saharan
Africa. African Urban Spaces in Historical Perspective presents new
and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of African urban
history and culture. It presents original research and integrates
historical methodologies with those of anthropology, geography,
literature, art, and architecture. Moving between precolonial,
colonial, and contemporary urban spaces, it covers the major
regions, religions, and cultural influences of sub-Saharan Africa.
The themes include Islam and Christianity, architecture, migration,
globalization, social and physical decay, identity, race relations,
politics, and development. This book elaborates on not only what
makes the study of African urban spaces unique within urban
historiography, it also offers an-encompassing and up-to-date study
of the subject and inserts Africa into the growing debate on urban
history and culture throughout the world. The opportunities
provided by the urban milieu are endless and each study opens new
potential avenues of research. This book explores some of those
avenues and lays the groundwork on which new studies can build.
Contributors: Maurice NyamangaAmutabi, Catherine Coquery
Vidrovitch, Mark Dike DeLancey, Thomas Ngomba Ekali, Omar A. Eno,
Doug T. Feremenga, Laurent Fourchard, James Genova, Fatima
Muller-Friedman, Godwin R. Murunga, Kefa M. Otiso, Michael Ralph,
Jeremy Rich,Eric Ross, Corinne Sandwith, Wessel Visser. Toyin
Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the
Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the
University of Texas at Austin; Steven J.Salm is Assistant Professor
of History, Xavier University of Louisiana.
The aftermath of recent Kenyan elections has been marred by
violence and an apparent crisis in democratic governance, with the
negotiated settlement resulting from the 2007 election bringing
into sharp focus longstanding problems of state and society. The
broader reform process has involved electoral, judicial and
security-sector reforms, among others, which in turn revolve around
constitutional reforms. Written by a gathering of eminent
specialists, this highly original volume interrogates the roots and
impact of the 2010 constitution. It explains why reforms were
blocked in the past but were successful this time around, and
explores the scope for their implementation in the face of
continued resistance by powerful groups. In doing so, the book
demonstrates that the Kenyan experience carries significance well
past its borders, speaking to debates surrounding social justice
and national cohesion across the African continent and beyond.
The aftermath of recent Kenyan elections has been marred by
violence and an apparent crisis in democratic governance, with the
negotiated settlement resulting from the 2007 election bringing
into sharp focus longstanding problems of state and society. The
broader reform process has involved electoral, judicial and
security-sector reforms, among others, which in turn revolve around
constitutional reforms. Written by a gathering of eminent
specialists, this highly original volume interrogates the roots and
impact of the 2010 constitution. It explains why reforms were
blocked in the past but were successful this time around, and
explores the scope for their implementation in the face of
continued resistance by powerful groups. In doing so, the book
demonstrates that the Kenyan experience carries significance well
past its borders, speaking to debates surrounding social justice
and national cohesion across the African continent and beyond.
The path towards democracy in Kenya has been long and often
tortuous. Though it has been trumpeted as a goal for decades,
democratic government has never been fully realised, largely as a
result of the authoritarian excesses of the Kenyatta, Moi and
Kibaki regimes. This uniquely comprehensive study of Kenya's
political trajectory shows how the struggle for democracy has been
waged in civil society, through opposition parties, and amongst
traditionally marginalised groups like women and the young. It also
considers the remaining impediments to democratisation, in the form
of a powerful police force and damaging structural adjustment
policies. Thus, the authors argue, democratisation in Kenya is a
laborious and non-linear process. Kenyans' recent electoral
successes, the book concludes, have empowered them and
reinvigorated the prospects for democracy, heralding a more
autonomous and peaceful twenty-first century.
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