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  1. Introduction: the stuff of African cities
  2. Joost Fontein, Constance Smith
  3. pp. 1-19
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  1. Building concrete futures: Materiality and urban lives in West Africa
  2. Armelle Choplin
  3. pp. 20-39
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  1. A share in the sands: trips, pits and potholes in Accra, Ghana
  2. Katherine Dawson
  3. pp. 40-59
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  1. Goats, materials and uncertainty in Nairobi
  2. Joost Fontein
  3. pp. 60-79
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  1. Tasting ‘kienyeji’: gustatory explorations of city futures in Nakuru, Kenya
  2. Nick Rahier
  3. pp. 80-99
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  1. City of icebergs: materiality, surface and depth in Nairobi’s built environment
  2. Constance Smith
  3. pp. 100-120
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  1. Modelling the city: bedroom drawer blueprints as urban planning in Maputo, Mozambique
  2. Morten Nielsen
  3. pp. 121-139
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  1. Urban fractures: mobility, risk and the accidenté in Kikwit, Democratic Republic of Congo
  2. Trisha Phippard
  3. pp. 140-158
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  1. On the mobility of ghosts: spectral journeys in the South African lowveld
  2. Isak Niehaus
  3. pp. 159-176
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  1. Frantz Fanon: A Political Biography by Leo Zeilig (review)
  2. Christopher J. Lee
  3. pp. 177-178
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  1. Ethiopia in Theory: Revolution and Knowledge Production, 1964–2016 by Elleni Centime Zeleke (review)
  2. Namhla Thando Matshanda
  3. pp. 178-180
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  1. Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula by Laleh Khalili (review)
  2. Yasir Zaidan
  3. pp. 180-182
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  1. They Eat Our Sweat: Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria by Daniel E. Agbiboa (review)
  2. Els Keunen
  3. pp. 182-183
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  1. Spiritual and Mental Health Crisis in Globalizing Senegal: A History of Transcultural Psychiatry by Alice Bullard (review)
  2. Yassin Dia
  3. pp. 184-185
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  1. Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa: The Political Economy of Belonging to Liberia by Robtel Neajai Pailey (review)
  2. Daniel Hammett
  3. pp. 185-187
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  1. In-Betweenness in Greater Khartoum: Spaces, Temporalities, and Identities from Separation to Revolution ed. by Alice Franck, Barbara Casciarri and Idris Salim El-Hassan (review)
  2. Griet Steel
  3. pp. 187-188
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