REFRACTIONS OF THE NATIONAL, THE POPULAR AND THE GLOBAL IN AFRICAN CITIES

187pp., illus., maps, paperback, Somerset West, 2021

Case studies of metropolitan cities in nine African countries, including South Africa, Angola and Zimbabwe. Draws on papers presented at a conference hosted by the Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Study and the African Centre for Cities in August 2017

Contributions include:

"Lip Service: how voices from the informal settlements were sidelined during the first decade of local democracy in South Africa" by Liela Groenewald

"Local Government as the Stage for Resistance: strategies and tactics of opposing mega projects in Gauteng" by Margot Rubin

"Popular protests and the limits of civil society in the struggle for democracy in Zimbabwe: 2011 to 2016" by Ngonidzashe Marongwe

"Africa's New Dubai? Intersections between the global and the local in the redevelopment of the Bay of Luanda, Angola" by Sylvia Croese.