A study of how colonial and postcolonial legacies manifest in African cities and African urban planning.

AbdouMaliq Simone is Assistant Director of the Graduate Program in International Affairs at New School University. He is the author of In Whose Image? Political Islam and Urban Practices in Sudan and, with David Hecht, Invisible Governance: The Art of African Micropolitics.

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Remaking African Cities 1
1. The Informal: The Projet de Ville in Pikine, Senegal 21
2. The Invisible: Winterveld, South Africa 63
3. The Spectral: Assembling Douala, Cameroon 92
4. Movement: The Zawiyyah as the City 118
5. Reconciling Engagement and Belonging: Some Matters of History 136
6. The Production and Management of Urban Resources 178
7. Cities and Change 213
Notes 245
References 269
Index 291