ECAS 2009
3rd European Conference on African Studies
Leipzig, 4 to 7 June 2009

Panel 51: Spatial transformations in African towns (Holly Hanson / Alessandro Gusman)

Panel Organisers: Holly Hanson / Alessandro Gusman

African towns and cities both contribute to and express profound social transformations in African societies. Bringing together historical, anthropological, and geographical approaches, the panel aims to explore how social, economic, and political changess have been made visible through the spatial reordering of African urban landscapes.

Accepted Abstracts

The mushrooming of Pentecostal churches in Kampala (Uganda)
 
Rap music and the geography of leisure in Dakar (Senegal)
 
Conflict and urban transformation in Goma, Eastern D.R. Congo
A second Zanzibar . Some notes on the history of precolonial and early colonial Tabora, Tanzania (1840-1912).
 
 
Relating to the Durban Urban Space. Experiences of Spatial Transformations Among South African Pentecostals