How have politicians, planners, and power brokers deployed—or not—notions of creativity across the history of African cities from the colonial era to the present? The contributors to Creative Cities in Africa address this question as they frame critical approaches to architecture and urbanism and explore new and alternative forms of writing, thinking, and making the city.
Noëleen Murray holds a Research Chair in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Pretoria. Jonathan Cane is a fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity at the University of York.
"Demonstrates a rich variety of approaches to rethinking the topic, from the empirical to the more poetic, and what it might mean from a pan-African perspective. Its multidimensionality celebrates a complexity that is often elided [in] more singular narratives." —Kim Gurney, South African Journal of Science
"The emphasis on creativity in this inviting volume on urbanism is a well-chosen prism for the diverse curiosities, insights, perspectives, and narratives on African cities as innovative spaces."— Francis B. Nyamnjoh, University of Cape Town
"A jazz-like score of multiplicitous African cities is what this carefully arranged collage of a book offers."— Alexander Opper, University of Johannesburg
