Nairobi in the Making: Landscapes of Time and Urban Belonging

by Constance Smith

What does it mean to make a life in an African city today? How do ordinary Africans, surrounded by collapsing urban infrastructures and amid fantastical promises of hypermodern, globalised futures, try to ensure a place for themselves in the city's future? Exploring the relationship between the remains of empire and the global city, and themes of urban belonging and exclusion, housing and security, Constance Smith examines the making and remaking...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847012337
• ISBN13: 9781847012333
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: James Currey
• Length: 221 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"