Includes bibliographical references and index.

Douala/Johannesburg/New York: cityscapes imagined / Dominique Malaqu ais -- Internal migration and the escalation of ethnic and religious vi olence in urban Nigeria / Daniel Jordan Smith -- (Re)configuring the ci ty: the mapping of places and people in contemporary Kenyan popular son g texts / Joyce Nyairo -- Johannesburg fortified [photo essay] / Martin J. Murray (text) ; Juanita Malan (photography) -- Douala: inventing li fe in an African necropolis / Basile Ndjio -- Economic globalization fr om below: transitional refugee trade networks in Nairobi / Elizabeth H. Campbell -- Changing African cityscapes: regional claims of African la bor at South-African owned shopping malls / Darlene Miller -- Cars are killing Luanda: cronyism, consumerism, and other assaults on Angola's p ostwar, capital city / M. Anne Pitcher with Aubrey Graham -- Luanda, An gola [photo essay] / Aubrey Graham (photography) ; M. Anne Pitcher (tex t) -- Human capital, embedded resources, and employment for youth in Bu lawayo, Zimbabwe / Miriam Grant -- Gender relations, breadwinning, and family life in Kinshasa / Guillaume Iyenda and David Simon -- South Afr ican urbanism: between the modern and the refugee camp / AbdouMaliq Sim one -- Planning, anti-planning, and the infrastructure crisis facing me tropolitan Lagos / Matthew Gandy -- City life in Zimbabwe at a time of fear and loathing: urban planning, urban poverty, and operation Muramba tsvina / Deborah Potts -- Social control and social welfare under neo-l iberalism in South African cities: contradictions in free basic water s ervices / Greg Ruiters.