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1 online resource : text file, PDF |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; Importance of African Towns; Urban Analysis; 2. Patterns of Urban Growth; The New Towns; Modernization and Urban Geography; Quantitative Urban Growth; 3. Urban Migration and Commitment; Importance of Causes; Types of Migration; Revolution of Values; Economic Betterment; Attraction of Town Life; Sojourn as Status; Rural Ties; The Case of Women; Multiple Causation; 4. Impact of Migration and Town Life upon the Individual; Disjunction in Social Controls; Familial Disjunction |
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Elite and Status DisjunctionAspirational Disjunction; Impact of Disjunctions; 5. Urban Conditions; Employment; Housing; Education; Health; Poverty Pockets; 6. Urban Ethnicity; Levels of Ethnic Membership; Continental "Racial" Group and Relations; African Ethnicity; Variations in Ethnicity; Functional Bases of Sustained Ethnicity in Towns; 7. Nonethnic Perspectives and Practices; Syncretism; Nonethnic Clusters and Associations; The Labor Union: A Nonethnic Association; Emergence of Class; Social Class Formation; 8. Bases of Political Conflict; Scope and Intensity; Polyethnic Politics; Factions |
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Political Movements and Other Nonethnic AssociationsClass; 9. Bases of Political Integration; Ethnic Subsystems; Interlevel Subsystem; Locality Subsystem; Linkages Among Subsystems; 10. Patterns of Change; Scope of Change; Direction of Change; A Note On Policy; A Note On Research; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX |
| Summary |
"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."--Provided by publisher |
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Cities and towns -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
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Cities and towns -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Bibliography
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Urbanization -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
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Urbanization -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Bibliography
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Cities and towns
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Urbanization
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Sub-Saharan Africa
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Bibliographies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351300605 |
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1351300601 |
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9781351300599 |
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1351300598 |
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