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I ‘Confini’Delle Città Africane

2011, Quaderni Asiatici

Abstract

English Abstract Version “It's not the city that makes the African, but it's the African who ma the city". African cities are poorly studied by historians who did privilege rural African studies. Sub-Saharan cities show both social and spacial dynamics which did certainly precede the European presence. These dynamics explain themselves in urbanization processes not necessarily linked to economic, industrial and social issues. Tradition and modernity co-exist, they are parts of constant modification processes. The numerous communities which gradually contributed to the ...