Juta Academic: 2 books
Cities with Slums
From Informal Settlement Eradication to a Right to the City in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
The UN’s Cities without Slums Campaign, which aimed to improve the lives of 100 million “slum” dwellers, has been inappropriately communicated across Africa as a project to eradicate slums and this book explains how current urban policy encourages this interpretation which has led to conflicts...
Burdened By Race
Coloured Identities in Southern Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Examines diverse manifestations of coloredness in southern Africa, with case studies from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi, to present analyses that challenge and overturn the conventional wisdom around colored identity.