The Arts of Citizenship in African Cities: Infrastructures and Spaces of Belonging (Africa Connects)

The Arts of Citizenship in African Cities pushes the frontiers of how we understand cities and citizenship and offers new perspectives on African urbanism. Nuanced ethnographic analyses of life in an array of African cities illuminate the emergent infrastructures and spaces of belonging through which urban lives and politics are being forged. Front Matter....Pages i-xii Introduction....Pages 1-23 Too Many Things to Do: Social Dimensions of City-Making in Africa....Pages 25-47 The Funeral in the Village: Urbanites’ Shifting Imaginations of Belonging, Mobility, and Community....Pages 49-66 Citizenship and Civility in Peri-Urban Mozambique....Pages 67-89 “Dealing with the Prince over Lagos”: Pentecostal Arts of Citizenship....Pages 91-114 The Road to Redemption: Performing Pentecostal Citizenship in Lagos....Pages 115-135 “The Old Man Is Dead”: Hip Hop and the Arts of Citizenship of Senegalese Youth....Pages 137-161 Beautifying Brazzaville: Arts of Citizenship in the Congo....Pages 163-185 Representing an African City and Urban Elite: The Nightclubs, Dance Halls, and Red-Light District of Interwar Accra....Pages 187-207 Seeing Dirt in Dar es Salaam: Sanitation, Waste, and Citizenship in the Postcolonial City....Pages 209-229 “Ambivalent Cosmopolitans”? Senegalese and Malian Migrants in Johannesburg....Pages 231-252 Walls and White Elephants: Oil, Infrastructure, and the Materiality of Citizenship in Urban Equatorial Guinea....Pages 253-276 Nigerian Modernity and the City: Lagos 1960–1980....Pages 277-295 Back Matter....Pages 297-310 "Building upon a growing literature that resists the pathologizing effects of developmentalist and comparative framings, this fascinating collection of case studies pushes the frontiers of scholarship on African urbanism through detailed and nuanced ethnographic analyses of life in a diverse set of cities across the continent. These contributions explore a range of innovative institutions, discourses, and material practices through which claims to citizenship are enacted and contested by a diverse array of actors. They treat cities as sites of experimentation, privileging the ordinary, daily, under-the-radar negotiations through which emergent reconfigurations of citizenship are being continually forged. In doing so, they provide a more culturally informed perspective on African politics and society"-- Provided by publisher 7 Beautifying Brazzaville: Arts of Citizenship in the Congo8 Representing an African City and Urban Elite: The Nightclubs, Dance Halls, and Red-Light District of Interwar Accra; 9 Seeing Dirt in Dar es Salaam: Sanitation, Waste, and Citizenship in the Postcolonial City; 10 "Ambivalent Cosmopolitans"?* Senegalese and Malian Migrants in Johannesburg; 11 Walls and White Elephants: Oil, Infrastructure, and the Materiality of Citizenship in Urban Equatorial Guinea*; 12 Nigerian Modernity and the City: Lagos 1960-1980; List of Contributors; Index Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Volume Abstracts; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Too Many Things to Do: Social Dimensions of City-Making in Africa; 2 The Funeral in the Village: Urbanites' Shifting Imaginations of Belonging, Mobility, and Community; 3 Citizenship and Civility in Peri-Urban Mozambique; 4 "Dealing with the Prince over Lagos": Pentecostal Arts of Citizenship; 5 The Road to Redemption: Performing Pentecostal Citizenship in Lagos*; 6 "The Old Man Is Dead": Hip Hop and the Arts of Citizenship of Senegalese Youth* The Arts of Citizenship in African Citie s pushes the frontiers of how we understand cities and citizenship and offers new perspectives on African urbanism. Nuanced ethnographic analyses of life in an array of African cities illuminate the emergent infrastructures and spaces of belonging through which urban lives and politics are being forged