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African Urban Economies: Searching for Sources of Sustainability

In: African Urban Economies

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  • Deborah Fahy Bryceson

    (African Studies Centre, Oxford University)

Abstract

Attempts at identifying the foundations of urban economic activity over the last quarter of a century of economic decline in Sub-Saharan African could be likened to early explorers’ efforts to trace the source of the Nile. The voluminous flow of one of the world’s major rivers through hundreds of kilometres of desert sands was perplexing and begged the question of its locational source. Similarly, one may wonder how Africa’s large cities have provided economic livelihoods and shelter to growing populations during the continent’s protracted economic crises.

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  • Deborah Fahy Bryceson, 2006. "African Urban Economies: Searching for Sources of Sustainability," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Deborah Fahy Bryceson & Deborah Potts (ed.), African Urban Economies, chapter 2, pages 39-66, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-52301-2_2
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230523012_2
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    1. Michal Lyons & Colman Titus Msoka, 2010. "The World Bank and the Street: (How) Do ‘Doing Business’ Reforms Affect Tanzania’s Micro-traders?," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 47(5), pages 1079-1097, May.
    2. Richard Kiaka & Shiela Chikulo & Sacha Slootheer & Paul Hebinck, 2021. "“The street is ours”. A comparative analysis of street trading, Covid-19 and new street geographies in Harare, Zimbabwe and Kisumu, Kenya," Food Security: The Science, Sociology and Economics of Food Production and Access to Food, Springer;The International Society for Plant Pathology, vol. 13(5), pages 1263-1281, October.
    3. Jackson, Emerson Abraham, 2019. "Informal Employment," MPRA Paper 97902, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 02 Dec 2019.
    4. Deborah Potts, 2013. "Urban economies, urban livelihoods and natural resource-based economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa: The constraints of a liberalized world economy," Local Economy, London South Bank University, vol. 28(2), pages 170-187, March.
    5. Potts, Deborah, 2012. "Challenging the Myths of Urban Dynamics in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Evidence from Nigeria," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 40(7), pages 1382-1393.

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