Capital cities in Africa: power and powerlessness
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Weitere Verfasser: Bekker, Simon B. (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cape Town HSRC Press [u.a.] 2012
Ausgabe:1. publ.
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references -- "Capital cities today remain central to both nations and states. They host centres of political power, not only national, but in some cases regional and global as well, thus offering major avenues to success, wealth and privilege. For these reasons capitals simultaneously become centres of "counter-power", locations of high-stakes struggles between the government and the opposition. This volume focuses on capital cities in nine sub-Saharan African countries, and traces how the power vested in them has evolved through different colonial backgrounds, radically different kinds of regimes after independence, waves of popular protest, explosive population growth and in most cases stunted economic development. Starting at the point of national political emancipation, each case study explores the complicated processes of nation-state building through its manifestation in the "urban geology" of the city - its architecture, iconography, layout and polit
Beschreibung:XXVIII, 220 S. Ill., Kt.
ISBN:9780796923509
9782869784956
9780796923516
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