11 books about urban Africa from 2024

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Hi all,

Stay tuned for our books to read about Africa from 2024. In the meantime, here are some books about urban Africa from last year to check out:

Making an African City: Technopolitics and the Infrastructure of Everyday Life in Colonial Accra

By Jennifer Hart

Maritime Culture and Everyday Life in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Coastal Ghana: A Social History of Cape Coast

By Kwaku Nti

Urban Displacement and Trade in a Senegalese Market: An anthropology of endings

By Gunvor Jónsson

Apartheid Remains

By Sharad Chari

Urban Power: Democracy and Inequality in São Paulo and Johannesburg

By Benjamin Bradlow

Imagine Lagos: Mapping History, Place, and Politics in a Nineteenth-Century African City

By Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi

Master Plans and Minor Acts: Repairing the City in Post-Genocide Rwanda

By Shakirah E. Hudani

Waterhouses: Landscapes, Housing, and the Making of Modern Lagos

By Mark Duerksen

Making a Life: Young men on Johannesburg’s urban margins

By Hannah J Dawson

The Suburban Frontier: Middle-Class Construction in Dar es Salaam

By Claire Mercer

The Aesthetics of Belonging: Indigenous Urbanism and City Building in Oil-Boom Luanda