Too Many Things to Do: Social Dimensions of City-Making in Africa

Abstract

Urbanization has much to offer African economic and social wellbeing. This remains the case despite the clear problems inherent in the ways that cities have been put together. These problems include shrinking rural livelihoods, insufficient value-added production, excessive emphasis on rents and administration, and low-cost informal labor. Nevertheless, although much is known about all of the things wrong, biased, distorted, and underdeveloped in African cities, it is also critical to understand urbanization as something capable of stirring productive relationships among people, materials, and places, regardless of specific histories, political conditions, or positions within larger economies.

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