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20. African Urban History, Place-Naming and Place-Making

verfasst von : Robert Home

Erschienen in: Land Issues for Urban Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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African urban history can contribute towards understanding present-day land governance issues of SSA cities, through a post-disciplinary approach across disciplinary and sub-disciplinary boundaries. The chapter explores precolonial and colonial building forms, and the impact of colonial policies towards towns or townships, which discouraged Africans from urban living. Banished to peri-urban settlements, they lived in temporary structures, often under threat of demolition and displacement. A sense of place identity and attachment is difficult in such circumstances, but place-naming and community histories can help build local civil society so that better rules for land governance, both formal and informal, can be negotiated.

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Titel: African Urban History, Place-Naming and Place-Making
verfasst von: Robert Home
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Buch: Land Issues for Urban Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-52503-3

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-52504-0

Copyright-Jahr: 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52504-0_20

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