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245 00 $aAssociational life in African cities :$bpopular responses to the urban crisis /$cedited by Arne Tostensen, Inge Tvedten, Mariken Vaa.
260 $a[Uppsala] :$bNordiska Afrikainstitutet,$c©2001.
300 $a324 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
500 $a"Of the 17 chapters in this book, 16 are revised versions of papers presented at Bergen, while Chapter 1 and the introductions to the sub-sections were written after the conference was held". (p. 5.).
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aThe urban crisis governance and associational life / Arne Tostensen, Inge Tvedten and Mariken Vaa -- Coping through informal networks -- Social networks and urban vulnerability to hunger / Ilda Lourenc̦o-Lindell -- Between ghetto and globe: remaking urban life in Africa / AbdouMaliq Simone -- Women's groups and urban poverty: the Swaziland experience / Miranda Miles -- Religion and identity -- New generation churches and the provision of welfare: a gender study from Port Harcourt, Nigeria / Yomi Oruwari -- The politics of multiple identities: the making of a Home Villagers' Association in Lilongwe, Malawi / Harri Englund -- Touba: the new dairas and the urban dream / Cheikh Gueye -- Land and housing -- The role of civil society in urban management in Accra, Ghana / Katherine V. Gough and Paul W.K. Yankson -- Land-buying companies for urban housing in Eldoret, Kenya / Sarah Karirah Gitau -- Civil society, housing and urban governance: the case of urban housing co-operatives in Zimbabwe / Amin Y. Kamete II -- Infrastructure and services -- Responses to the urban crisis in Cameroon and Congo: patterns of local participation in urban management / Gabriel Tati -- NGOs in urban environmental governance: waste recycyling in Cairo / Susanna Myllylä -- reactions to deteriorating provision of public services in Dar es Salaam / Robert M. Mhamba and Colman Titus -- Emerging initiatives -- The changing role of community based organisations in South Africa in the 1990s, with emphasis on their role in development projects / Warren Smit -- Communities and community institutions in Luanda, Angola / Paul Robson -- The legacy of mobilisation from above: participation in a Zanzibar neighbourhood / Jørgen Andreasen -- Urban development and community participation in Oshakati, Northern Namibia / Bruce Frayne, Wade Pendleton and Akiser Pomuti.
520 8 $aThe 17 essays in this volume focus on the multitude of voluntary associations to have emerged in African cities in recent years. Recurrent themes include the contexts in which people have organised themselves and how needs are serviced.
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700 1 $aTostensen, Arne.
700 1 $aTvedten, Inge.
700 1 $aVaa, Mariken.
711 2 $aAssociational Life in African Cities: Urban Governance in an Era of Change Conference$d(1998 :$cBergen, Norway)
776 08 $iOnline version:$tAssociational life in African cities.$d[Uppsala] : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, ©2001$w(OCoLC)606563644
776 08 $iOnline version:$tAssociational life in African cities.$d[Uppsala] : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, ©2001$w(OCoLC)608496171
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