Anthony O'Connor

The African city

1. Introduction 2. Urban traditions, distribution and growth 3. Rural-urban migration 4. Ethnic groups 5. The urban economy 6. Housing 7. Spatial Structures 9. Urban Structures 10. Conclusions

URBANIZATION IN TROPICAL AFRICA : AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Housing Africa's Urban Poor

The poorest of Africas urban poor tend to be recent immigrants who gravitate to city-centre slums or shanty towns. Increasingly, housing is becoming commercialized, with the urban population stratified into owner-occupiers, landlords or tennants. This volume comprises papers from an International African Institute seminar at which participants reported on the policies of international agencies and African governments, their impact on the supply of housing, and the social consequences. It reveals the extent to which petty landlordism is developing, not only in settlements which have sprung up but also in government-sponsored, low-cost housing estates. Additionally, it explores how city housing policies are now tending to exacerbate social inequalities.

Book reviews : Mountjoy, A.B. and Hilling, D. 1988: Africa: geography and development. London: Hutchinson. x + 462 pp. £12.95 paper

There are many positive things that can be said about this book, but I really cannot say that it demonstrates ’progress in human geography’. It is full of useful information and is very lucidly written, but mine will not be the only copy to have many exclamation marks pencilled in the margins. It is indeed almost incredible that certain sections of it could be published in 1988. A partial explanation is that much of the book was actually written 25 years ago. Political independence drew world attention to Africa in the early 1960s, and several university geography texts then appeared almost simultaneously. The most solidly descriptive of these, and even then in some ways the most old-fashioned, was Africa: