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The African City: A History
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The International Journal of African Historical Studies
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January 1, 2008
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The African City: A History. By Bill Freund. New Approaches to African History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. x, 214; 27 illustrations. $55.00 cloth, $19.99 paper.
Urban formations are indigenous to and characteristic of the African continent, and have long been sites of dynamic innovation and interaction with foreign populations. This is the underlying premise of Bill Freund's sophisticated yet accessible book. It adds to the recent growth of interest in urbanism in its multiple forms in Africa. It is alone, however, in discussing cities across the continent, rather than separating sub-Saharan and North Africa, and in including everything from the Bronze Age through ...
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