Verandahs of Power: Colonialism and Space in Urban Africa Myers Garth Andrew
Verandahs of Power: Colonialism and Space in Urban Africa Myers Garth Andrew Garth Andrew Myers' work makes a significant contribution to a long tradition of research on colonial cities and a…
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Verandahs of Power: Colonialism and Space in Urban Africa Myers Garth Andrew
Garth Andrew Myers' work makes a significant contribution to a long tradition of research on colonial cities and a multidisciplinary body of literature on urban legacies of colonialism. In addition to the examination of urban plans and the African urban majority's responses to them, the book traces the experience of the urban planning process through three different "verandahs of power," or levels of class depiction: the colonial power, the colonized middle, and the urban majority. He examines both colonial rule and postcolonial inheritance in these cities, tracing the legacies of colonialism in different and divergent postcolonial settings--a revolutionary left-wing socialist state (Zanzibar) and a reactionary right-wing dictatorship (Malawi).
Interspersed with personal stories, this book illuminates our understanding of the workings of power in African cities by addressing human
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