![]() This initiative is one contribution to a larger movement of imagination to redefine the practical workings of the African city.įor the editors, it is self-evident that one has to take the youthful demographic, informality and a non-conventional insertion in global circuits by African urbanites as a starting point for a sustained engagement and retelling of the city in contemporary Africa. The project arose from the belief that a range of interventions seeking to engage the shape-shifting essence of African cities is long overdue. Yet, next to nothing is known about what goes on in places – not that there is any shortage of caricature, hyperbole or opinion about what makes African cities such quintessential spaces of dystopia and atrophy. In many senses African cities are amongst the most generative and vibrant places on the planet. ![]() ![]() It is a joint creation of Chimurenga Magazine and the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town, edited by Ntone Edjabe and Edgar Pieterse. The African Cities Reader is a biennial publication that brings together contributors from across Africa and the world to challenge the prevailing depiction of urban life on the continent and redefine cityness, Africa-style.
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