Tag Archives: Africa

Exploring Intersections of Urban History and Global History: A Roundtable Discussion at EAUH 2018

Posted on 4. December 2018 by Global Urban History

By Bronwen Everill, University of Cambridge, Anindita Ghosh, University of Manchester, Ayala Levin, Northwestern University, Cyrus Schayegh, The Graduate Institute Geneva, Rosemary Wakeman, Fordham University, Carl Nightingale, University at Buffalo, and Joseph Ben Prestel, Freie Universität Berlin Carl Nightingale and … Continue reading →

Posted in Article | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

Dakar, Senegal: Cosmopolitan Interwar City

Posted on 24. August 2018 by Global Urban History

By Kathleen Keller, Gustavus Adolphus College One of largest cities in West Africa, Dakar, Senegal sits at the western-most tip of the continent. Now home to a population of over two million people, Dakar of today is the capital of … Continue reading →

Posted in Allgemein, Article | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Reading the City from the Streets

Posted on 31. July 2018 by Global Urban History

Kenda Mutongi. Matatu: A History of Popular Transportation in Nairobi. Chicago/London: The University of Chicago Press, 2017. 350 pp., US$ 30.00 (paper). Reviewed by Norman Aselmeyer, European University Institute In Nairobi, it is a hopeless task to guard oneself against … Continue reading →

Posted in Reviews | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

The Making of Imperial Peripheries: The musseques in Late-Colonial Luanda

Posted on 31. October 2017 by Global Urban History

By Juliana Bosslet, SOAS, University of London Angolan magazines in the 1960s and early ‘70s often insisted that Luanda was “the most Portuguese” of all African cities. The supposed exceptionalism of the Portuguese colonial case led not only academics but … Continue reading →

Posted in Article | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Imagine Lagos: Mapping a Pre-Colonial West African City

Posted on 28. March 2017 by Global Urban History

By Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi, University of California, Riverside Africa’s cities are now among the fastest growing in the world. But how well are their pre-colonial origins understood? Recent research on Lagos’s past reveals a thriving, indigenous yet cosmopolitan urban community, one … Continue reading →

Posted in Article | Tagged , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Imagining Johannesburg: A New Book on South Africa’s Metropolises

Posted on 13. March 2017 by Global Urban History

Vivian Bickford-Smith, The Emergence of the South African Metropolis: Cities and Identities in the Twentieth Century, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2016. 340 pp., $ 99.99 / £ 64.99 / € 94.99. ISBN 978-1-107-00293-7. Reviewed by Jonathan Hyslop, Colgate University and … Continue reading →

Posted in Reviews | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

City Life and Automobility in Twentieth-Century Ghana

Posted on 1. December 2016 by Global Urban History

By Jennifer Hart, Wayne State University On the eve of his country’s independence in the mid-1950s, Ghanaian journalist Moses Danquah claimed: “We are riding confidently on the crest of the wave to greater economic prosperity, to greater social and cultural achievements, … Continue reading →

Posted in Article | Tagged , , , , | 1 Comment

On the Khartoum Omnibus: Stories of Sudan’s Cosmopolitanism

Posted on 22. November 2016 by Global Urban History

By Raphael Cormack, University of Edinburgh In July 2005 a helicopter carrying John Garang, leader of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement and new vice-president of Sudan, crashed in Uganda. Garang and the 13 other passengers were all killed. The most … Continue reading →

Posted in Article | Tagged , , , , , | 2 Comments

From Rural to City Dwellers: A New Book on Indians in Kenya

Posted on 29. August 2016 by Global Urban History

Sana Aiyar, Indians in Kenya: The Politics of Diaspora, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2015, 384 pp., $49.95 / £36.95 / €45.00. Reviewed by Saima Nasar, University of Birmingham Indians have contributed to Kenya’s multiracial tapestry for centuries. At Independence, … Continue reading →

Posted in Reviews | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

African Urban History and Global History – a Comment

Posted on 7. July 2016 by Global Urban History

Liora Bigon, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Reflecting on Africa’s urban past in the context of African history and as part of a global phenomenon is a challenging mission situated at the intersection of three subfields of research: African history, … Continue reading →

Posted in Article | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment