Bettina Ng’weno is Professor of African American and African Studies at the University of California, Davis and author of Turf Wars: Territory and Citizenship in the Contemporary State. She was born in Nairobi.

• Contents  List of IllustrationsAcknowledgments  Introduction: Dawn1. The Rain at Home2. Growing Old in a New City3. One Hundred Years of Segregation4. Dancing to the Sound of Nairobi5. Remnant of a Green City in the Sun6. Remains of an Unrealized Yesterday7. Place of Sweet Water8. No Place Like HomeEpilogue: Civil Twilight  NotesBibliographyGeneral Index

“An accessible, historically rich, methodologically rigorous and comprehensive ethnography of urban life in Nairobi. . . .  essential reading for scholars and graduate students interested in urban life in postcolonial Global South cities.”

Bettina Ng’weno is Professor of African American and African Studies at the University of California, Davis and author of Turf Wars: Territory and Citizenship in the Contemporary State. She was born in Nairobi.

• Contents  List of IllustrationsAcknowledgments  Introduction: Dawn1. The Rain at Home2. Growing Old in a New City3. One Hundred Years of Segregation4. Dancing to the Sound of Nairobi5. Remnant of a Green City in the Sun6. Remains of an Unrealized Yesterday7. Place of Sweet Water8. No Place Like HomeEpilogue: Civil Twilight  NotesBibliographyGeneral Index

“An accessible, historically rich, methodologically rigorous and comprehensive ethnography of urban life in Nairobi. . . .  essential reading for scholars and graduate students interested in urban life in postcolonial Global South cities.”

Bettina Ng’weno is Professor of African American and African Studies at the University of California, Davis and author of Turf Wars: Territory and Citizenship in the Contemporary State. She was born in Nairobi.

• Contents  List of IllustrationsAcknowledgments  Introduction: Dawn1. The Rain at Home2. Growing Old in a New City3. One Hundred Years of Segregation4. Dancing to the Sound of Nairobi5. Remnant of a Green City in the Sun6. Remains of an Unrealized Yesterday7. Place of Sweet Water8. No Place Like HomeEpilogue: Civil Twilight  NotesBibliographyGeneral Index

“An accessible, historically rich, methodologically rigorous and comprehensive ethnography of urban life in Nairobi. . . .  essential reading for scholars and graduate students interested in urban life in postcolonial Global South cities.”