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African cities are still growing at considerable speed. Yet for many urban dwellers making do in the city is a struggle for daily survival based on socio-economic fluidity and informality. Uncertainty and structural violence shape a platform for life of the majority. Commonplace urbanites are rarely protected by the state but instead have to congregate in local and parallel structures for protection and prosperity leading to patched and temporary solutions rather than urban stability. Urban justice is infringed upon through flawed legal systems and corrupt civil servants and thus parallel institutions for legal matters are formed on a local basis. African cities are thus organisms of constant and rapid changes, cities in flux, creating not solely difficulties but also opportunities for individuals. African cities have the capacity of keeping things moving and developing, perhaps not in the most orthodox ways, with possibilities of mixing old and new, local and global, urban and rural, formal and informal, legal and extralegal going well beyond the official inert procedures. Although one can say that no single body is clearly in charge of matters in most urban space this is also opening up room for a myriad of actors, for instance remarkably able handed brokers and fixers, dealing with all aspects of urban life.
Scholars with a research interest in the prosperity of broker and fixer figures in systems of informal functionality in urban Africa are invited to this session.
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Accepted Abstracts
Dealers, Fixers, Customs and Corruption: Negotiating the Trade of Used Cars from Durban to Maputo
The Socio-political Dynamics of Brokers of New Migrant Labor in Shashemene, Ethiopia
Perceptions and Attitudes on Urban Health Hazards: A Case Study of Kitwe, Zambia
The Prestige Economy:Veteran Clubs and Fixing the City through Male Youth Competition in Bamenda, Cameroon
Mobile Phones and the Petty Crime Economy of Southern Mozambique
Urban Governance beyond the State. Practices of Informal Urban Regulation in the City of Goma, eastern D.R. Congo
'The Arada Have Been Eaten’: Looking into the Crisis of the 'Street Hustlers' in Addis Ababa
The Politics of Urban Informality
