Deborah Pellow is a Professor Emerita in the Anthropology Department in the Maxwell School at Syracuse University, New York, USA.Suzanne Scheld is a Professor in the Anthropology Department at California State University, Northridge, USA.

• Part I: Introduction1 Introduction Deborah Pellow and Suzanne ScheldPart II. Knowing the City and Urban Imaginaries2 Kafanchan: A Nigerian Town and its Global HorizonsUlf Hannerz3 Beyond the Rhodes Livingstone-Institute. Anthropological Research in Urban Africa from the 1930s to the 2000sKatja Werthmann4 Seeing the African Urban: Toward a Visual Anthropology of African CitiesDanny Hoffman5 Mediated Ethnography: Images, Infrastructure, and New Imaginaries in Urban AfricaWilliam Bissell6 Class, Cities, and the Multiple-Disposition Habitus: Theoretical Insights from an African CityAnne LewinsonPart III. Urban Spaces7 South Sudan, Politics of Liberation and Contest Over JubaJok Madut Jok8 Manantali, Mali: Urbanization in and around a Small Town in the West Africa SavannaDolores Koenig9 Place-Making, Regulatory Politics, and the Roots of Informality in Colonial AccraJennifer Hart10 Schubart Park: Spatializing Opportunity in Colonial and Postcolonial South AfricaWilliam Suk11 On ‘Worlding’ Urban Ethnography: Conceptualizing Scalar Reconfigurations in an Ethiopian Frontier CityDaniel K. Thompson, Jemal Yusuf Mahamed, and Kader MohamoudPart IV. Urban Infrastructure and Mobility 12 The Infrastructure of Submarine Urbanism: Zanzibar in a Black and Blue WorldGarth Myers13 Temporalities of Absence: Infrastructural Politics and Time in Cape Town’s Informal SettlementsAngela Storey14 Sorting ‘Wire Spaghetti’ in Zanzibar Stone TownRose Marie Beck15 Modernity and the Art of Motorcycle Citizenship: Getting to Work in Nigeria’s Planned CapitalRudolf GaudioPart V. Power of Urban Belongingness16 We Were Running and Running: Rural-Urban Imaginaries and Strategic Mobility During the Liberian Civil WarMary H. Moran17 Reclaiming Citizenship: The Performance and Contestation of the Rural-Urban Distinction in Northern GhanaSaida Hodžić18 Religious Relevance Capital; the Urban Anthropology of Religious Diversity and the Significance of Social Support. The Case of Urban Religion in BotswanaRijk van Dijk19 Property, Mobility, and Belonging in an African MetropolisMatthew NesvetPart VI. Language and the City20 Urban Surfaces and Linguistic Landscape: Writing, Power and Ideology in Dakar’s Public SpaceFiona McLaughlin21 Naming the Future in Urban Niger: The Scriptural Economy of the FadasAdeline Masquelier22 Igboro ni mo wa: Popular Linguistic Innovation in Urban Yoruba LivesAugustine AgwuelePart VII. Conclusion23 ConclusionAfterwordAbdoumaliq Simone