Urban Dynamics in Black Africa: An Interdisciplinary Approach

Urban Dynamics in Black Africa presents a succession of worlds where we can study the development and the crystallization of major social change. The authors trace the development of former villages, towns, and colonial outposts into major cities within the international community. Open-air markets continue their trading beside modern department stores as individual Africans create contemporary lives from old and new.

William J. and Judith L. Hanna, in this unique work, introduce new data an...