Power and Inequality in Urban Africa

Laura Stark is a professor of ethnology at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. She was previously the director of the exchange network Living with Informal Settlements, Tackling Urban Poverty (LIFT UP), funded by the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.Annika Teppo lectures in cultural anthropology at the University of Uppsala.

• Introduction - Annika Teppo and Laura StarkSection I: Urban Renewal on a Massive Scale - Negotiating Space in Addis Ababa1. Neighborhood Open Spaces: Participation and Spatial Transformation in Addis Ababa’s Housing Cooperatives - Elias Y. Alemayehu and Segen Y. Tesfamariam2. Formation and Transformation of Urbanism in Addis Ababa - Yonas Alemayehu Soressa3. Locked out: Urban Inequalities in the Rapidly Transforming Inner City of Addis Ababa - Imam Mahmoud Hassen 4. Youth, Kebeles and Liminal Spaces in Addis Ababa’s Urban Renewal - Susanna MyllyläSection II: Resource Extraction and Poverty in Emerging Urban Sites5. Artisanal Gold Mining in West Africa and Ephemeral Urbanization - Cristiano Lanzano6. Someone to Look After Me: Responsibility and Welfare on the Zambian Copperbelt - Patience Mususa7. When a Gold Mine Boosts Urban Growth but Causes Poverty - Sidy Lamine BagayokoSection III: Rights to the City and Reconfigurations of Modernity in Cape Town and Luanda8. From Musseque to High-Rise Towers: Luanda’ s Renewal in Times of Abundance - Cristina Udelsmann Rodrigues9. Gentrified out of Sight: Voices from the Edges of Cape Town - Annika Teppo10. Dynamics of Temporary Living in Delft, Cape Town - Marianne MillsteinSection IV: Gendered Tactics for Survival in the City11. Adjustment Strategies and Gendered Shifts in Informal Labour Among Migratory Youth Porters and Metal Scrap Dealers in Accra - Esther Yeboah Danso-Wiredu and Adjoa Afriyie Poku12. Gender and Coping Strategies in Ouagadougou: Relational Networks Among the Chronically Poor - Madeleine Wayack Pambe and Nathalie Sawadogo13. Being Poor in Urban Spaces: Physical Environment and Women’s Livelihoods in a Tanzanian Slum - Tiina-Riitta Lappi14. Negotiating Precarity in the Slum: Household, Intimacy, and Gender Bargains in Dar es Salaam - Laura Stark15. Conclusion: Research-Based Policy Recommendations – Laura Stark and Annika Teppo

This excellent edited volume continues the tradition of Zed producing work on informality in cities on the African continent. A wide variety of scholars will find much to ponder in these pages. There is a particular focus on the intersections between power inequality and informality, but across a diversity of urban contexts. The ethnographic approaches of the authors bring these diverse contexts to life.