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Introduction : Women's political articulations in a Guinean city --Gendered conceptions throughout Guinean history --Contested presidential elections in 2010 --Expectations of the new president -- The Guinean State doing gender -- Women's limited impacts on institutional politics --Everyday politics --Struggling for recognition : interactions with local authorities --Conclusion : women's silent politics.

"This book examines how women in Guinea articulate themselves politically within and outside institutional politics. It documents the everyday practices that local female actors adopt to deal with the continuous economic, political, and social insecurities that emerge in times of political transformations.
Carole Ammann argues that women's political articulations in Muslim Guinea do not primarily take place within women's associations or institutional politics such as political parties; but instead women's silent forms of politics manifest in their daily agency, that is, when they make a living, study, marry, meet friends, raise their children, and do household chores. The book also analyses the relationship between the female population and the local authorities, and discusses when and why women's claim making enjoys legitimacy in the eyes of other men and women, as well as representatives of 'traditional' authorities and the local government.
Paying particular attention to intersectional perspectives, this book will be of interest to scholars of African studies, social anthropology, political anthropology, the anthropology of gender, urban anthropology, gender studies, and Islamic studies."

This book examines how women in Guinea articulate themselves politically within and outside institutional politics. It documents the everyday practices that local female actors adopt to deal with the continuous economic, political, and social insecurities that emerge in times of political transformations. Carole Ammann argues that women's political articulations in Muslim Guinea do not primarily take place within women's associations or institutional politics such as political parties; but instead women's silent forms of politics manifest in their daily agency, that is, when they make a living, study, marry, meet friends, raise their children, and do household chores. The book also analyses the relationship between the female population and the local authorities, and discusses when and why women's claim making enjoys legitimacy in the eyes of other men and women, as well as representatives of 'traditional' authorities and the local government. Paying particular attention to intersectional perspectives, this book will be of interest to scholars of African studies, social anthropology, political anthropology, the anthropology of gender, urban anthropology, gender studies, and Islamic studies.

Foreword -- Preface -- List of Illustrations -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- African Cities and the Development Conundrum: Actors and Agency in the Urban Grey Zone / Till Förster and and Carole Ammann -- The Politics of Governing African Urban Spaces / Edgar Pieterse -- Urban Governance -- Urban Governance in Africa: An Overview / Warren Smit -- Informal Governance: Comparative Perspectives on Co-optation, Control and Camouflage in Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda / Claudia Baez Camargo and Lucy Koechlin -- Why is Co-management of Parks Not Working in Johannesburg? / Claire Bénit-Gbaffou -- Planning, Politics and the Urban Grey Zone -- Online Representation of Sustainable City Initiatives in Africa: How Inclusive? / Ton Dietz -- Incremental Dependencies: Politics and Ethics of Claim-making at the Fringes of Windhoek, Namibia / Lalli Metsola -- Towards an Integrative Approach to Spatial Transformation / Sascha Delz -- Accra's Decongestion Policy: Another Face of Urban Clearance or Bulldozing Approach? / Aba O. Crentsil and George Owusu -- The Rural-Urban Continuum -- The Africa Problem of Global Urban Theory: Re-conceptualising Planetary Urbanisation / Garth Myers -- Urban Identities and Belonging: Young Men's Discourses about Pikine (Senegal) / Sebastian Prothmann -- The City and Its Ways of Life: Local Influences on Middle-Income Milieus in Nairobi / Florian Stoll -- Urbanisation and the Political Geographies of Violent Struggle for Power and Control: Mining Boomtowns in Eastern Congo / Karen Büscher.

This volume explores some of the complex development challenges associated with the recent and rapid pace of urbanisation across Africa. The transition from a predominantly rural to urban population over the next decade may prompt new approaches and policy responses from the international development community. Readership: Scholars and policy makers interested in Africa, demographic transition, urbanisation, development policy, cities, planning and urban design.

This 10th thematic issue of International Development Policy presents a collection of articles exploring some of the complex development challenges associated with Africa's recent but extremely rapid pace of urbanisation that challenges still predominant but misleading images of Africa as a rural continent. Analysing urban settings through the diverse experiences and perspectives of inhabitants and stakeholders in cities across the continent, the authors consider the evolution of international development policy responses amidst the unique historical, social, economic and political contexts of Africa's urban development.

The Guinean state has not only been shaped and reshaped by the political elite, but also by people's daily actions. Women selling at Dibida market in Kankan, the stronghold of Guinea's current President Alpha Condé, are doing politics although in interviews they often deny to do so. Thus, I propose to focus on these women's everyday agency so as to reveal their modes of political articulation and to illustrate how they influence governmental discourses and practices. Drawing on ethnographic research, I highlight the phenomenon of everyday politics by focussing on Kankan's market women's interactions with the local government represented by actors such as tax collectors, members of the market office, and other administrative employees. The aim is to gain insight into modes of political articulations that are hardly visible, hence difficult to grasp and analyse. I illustrate that market women, despite not forming a strong network, are able to put pressure on the local government by their sheer number and can thus sometimes pursue their goals.

AbstractThis article claims space for secondary cities in urban studies. It criticizes that scientists tend to study urban life in metropolises and, hence, do not represent urban life in its full diversity. In reality, the majority of the worlds' urban dwellers live in secondary cities; therefore, research on urbanity should reflect this fact. The article argues against simple approaches to secondary cities, such as defining them based on a single quantitative variable like population size. It rather proposes that anthropological research has a unique potential to reveal the urban dwellers' relational and situational perceptions of, and perspectives towards, secondary cities. The paper puts this approach into practice by examining two West African secondary cities: Kankan in Guinea and Bouaké in Côte d'Ivoire.

The time to come - as well as the exploration thereof - remains elusive for social actors and social scientists alike. The contributors accept the challenge to depict young men and women's future-creating activities in urban contexts of sub-Saharan Africa. Very consciously, they study young graduates having obtained a university degree and provide a vivid picture of their strategies to socially grow older by doing adulthood in contexts of great uncertainty. The examples include Burkina Faso, Guinea, Ethiopia, Mali and Tanzania, visually enriched through pictures taken by young Malian photographers.