This book was originally published as a special issue of African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal.
The book focuses on contemporary African cities, caught in the contradiction of an imperial past and postcolonial present.
This takeover of colonial spaces was a common theme among European writers discussing Kenya . The use of European names for streets and buildings was part of this scheme , in which almost every European writer was complicit .
Indeed, it is the cultural destination of colonial architecture and urbanism and the connection between them and colonialism that the volume seeks to critically address.
... stories is Chika Unigwe. She was born in Enugu, Nigeria, and now lives in Turnhout, Belgium with her Flemish husband. Her stories explore themes that relate to the problems of living in ... NARRATING THE AFRICAN CITY FROM THE DIASPORA 81.
The case studies reveal key features that characterize how the global land grab plays out in specific localities in Africa. This book was published as a special issue of African Identities.
... African Christian Communities in Sweden”. In The Public Face of African New Religious Movements in Diaspora: Imagining the Religious 'Other', edited by A. Adogame, 163–189. London: Ashgate Inform Series on Minority Religions and Spiritual ...
... black' in black diasporic cinemas. In: M.T. Martin, ed. Cinemas of the black diaspora: diversity, dependence, and oppositionality. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1Á21. Miller, C.L., 1998. Nationalist and nomads: essays on ...