Critical African Studies, Volume 13, Issue 3 (2021)

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REPRESENTING URBAN LIFE IN AFRICA AND ITS DIASPORAS

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Introduction
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Shari Daya & Rike Sitas
Pages: 233-236
Published online: 29 Dec 2021
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Storytelling as a political act: towards a politics of complexity and counter-hegemonic narratives
Kira Erwin
Pages: 237-252
Published online: 04 Dec 2020
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The promises, poetics and politics of verticality in the really high African city
Jonathan Cane
Pages: 253-269
Published online: 11 Jan 2021
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Inhabitant By Sello Pesa and Vaughn Sadie (2011) or how to (re)imagine public spaces in Johannesburg through art
Pauline Guinard
Pages: 270-285
Published online: 06 Apr 2021
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Representing Johannesburg in transformation: urban experience, imageries, and the work of art by David Koloane, Jo Ractliffe and Anthea Moys
Fiona Siegenthaler
Pages: 286-304
Published online: 29 Dec 2021
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The history and political economy of urban lives

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Neoliberalism and the state in the African city: informality, accumulation and the rebirth of a Ugandan market
Graeme Young
Pages: 305-320
Published online: 01 Dec 2021
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The political economy of informal dog breeding businesses in Harare’s high-density suburbs, Zimbabwe, 1990-2019.
Innocent Dande
Pages: 321-337
Published online: 29 Nov 2021
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Stand-up comedy as political resistance

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Laughter, resistance and ambivalence in Trevor Noah’s stand-up comedy: returning mimicry as mockery
Amanda Källstig & Carl Death
Pages: 338-355
Published online: 30 Mar 2020
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Bringing inside out: humour, outreach, and sexual and gender-based violence in Sierra Leone
Laura S. Martin, Caroline Bradbury-Jones, Simeon Koroma & Stephen Forcer
Pages: 356-373
Published online: 08 Dec 2021
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