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
By Kwaku Nti
Urban Displacement and Trade in a Senegalese Market: An anthropology of endings
By Gunvor Jónsson
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
Good of you to include Nairobi Becoming: Security, Uncertainty, Contigency (Punctum Press, Feb. 2024) in your list.
For those interested check it out here, open access: https://punctumbooks.com/titles/nairobi-becoming-security-uncertainty-contingency/