Books in the Politics and Society in Urban Africa series

An examination of howpatterns of income, class and racial inequality in Johannesburg highlight howand why earnings and spatial inequality in cities are changing in differingways to the, commonly-accepted, social polarisation hypothesis.

An in-depth study of street trading in Dar es Salaam, revealing the hidden dimensions of the city's thriving informal economy.

A study of Ghana's largest illegal slum, revealing how such communities are able to govern themselves in the absence of state authority.