Urban Africa: histories in the making / David M. Anderson and Richard J. A. R. Rathbone
Clustered cities of the Middle Niger: alternative routes to authority in prehistory / Roderick J. McIntosh
African city walls: a neglected source? / Graham Connah
Aksumite urbanism / David Phillipson
II. Pre-Colonial Towns in Transition
Mbanza Kongo/Sao Salvador: Kongo's holy city / John K. Thornton
Ouidah, 1727-1892: a pre-colonial urban centre in coastal West Africa / Robin Law
Merchants, missions and the remaking of the urban environment in Buganda, c. 1840-1890 / Richard Reid and Henri Medard
town of strangers or a model modern East African town? Arusha and the Arusha / Thomas Spear
cost of living in Lagos, 1914-1945 / Ayodeji Olukoju
city of Durban: towards a structural analysis of the economic growth and character of a South African city / Bill Freund
IV. Becoming Urban Towns as Cultural Brokers
But I know what I shall do: agency, belief and the social imagination in 18th century Gold Coast towns / Ray Kea
Gender in the city: women, migration and contested spaces in Tunis, c. 1830-1881 / Julia Clancy-Smith
Cultural politics of death and burial in early colonial Accra / John Parker
Wo pe tam won pe ba (You like cloth but you don't want children): urbanization, individualism and gender relations in colonial Ghana, c. 1900-1939 / Emmanuel Akyeampong
V. Politics of Urban Order
Land alienation and the urban growth of Bahir Dar, 1935-74 / Seltene Seyoum
Conservation and the colonial past: urban planning, space and power in Zanzibar / William Bissell
urbanism of District Six, Cape Town / Rafael Marks and Marco Bezzoli
political shaping of sacred locality in Brazzaville, 1959-1997 / Florence Bernault.
