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A timely exploration of the world's most rapidly urbanizing region The Urban Question in Africa explores the uneven and contested nature of the urban transition on the continent, offering fresh insights into the implications of climate crisis, geopolitical changes, and other contemporary meta-trends. Addressing Africa's urbanization as well as its broader development, the authors present an original framework that points towards more generativ...

A timely exploration of the world's most rapidly urbanizing region The Urban Question in Africa explores the uneven and contested nature of the urban transition on the continent, offering fresh insights into the implications of climate crisis, geopolitical changes, and other contemporary meta-trends. Addressing Africa's urbanization as well as its broader development, the authors present an original framework that points towards more generativ...

Once marginalized in the world economy, Africa today is a major global supplier of crucial raw materials like oil, uranium and coltan. China's part in this story has loomed particularly large in recent years, and the American military footprint on the continent has also expanded. But a new scramble for resources, markets and territory is now taking place in Africa involving not just state, but non state-actors, including Islamic fundamentalist...

2nd edition.