(Mis)Understanding Urban Africa: Toward A Research Agenda on the Political Impact of Urbanization

A review essay covering books by 1) Daniel E. Agbiboa. They Eat Our Sweat: Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria (2022), 2) Noah L. Nathan. Electoral Politics and Africa’s Urban Transition: Class and Ethnicity in Ghana (2019), 3) Stephanie Newell. Histories of Dirt: Med...

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Veröffentlicht in:	African studies review 2022-12, Vol.65 (4), p.985-1005
1. Verfasser:	Cheeseman, Nic
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Cities Citizenship Corruption Democracy Democratization Elections Ethnicity Housing cooperatives Informal economy Politics Rural areas Scholarly Review Essay Urban areas Urbanism Urbanization
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Zusammenfassung:	A review essay covering books by 1) Daniel E. Agbiboa. They Eat Our Sweat: Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria (2022), 2) Noah L. Nathan. Electoral Politics and Africa’s Urban Transition: Class and Ethnicity in Ghana (2019), 3) Stephanie Newell. Histories of Dirt: Media and Urban Life in Colonial and Postcolonial Lagos (2019), 4) Jeffrey Paller. Democracy in Ghana: Everyday Politics in Urban Africa and 5) AbdouMaliq Simone and Edgar Pieterse. New Urban Worlds: Inhabiting Dissonant Times (2018).
ISSN:	0002-0206 1555-2462
DOI:	10.1017/asr.2022.83