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Small town Africa: studies in rural-urban interaction
The Nordic Africa Institute.
1990 (English)Conference proceedings (editor) (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

Small towns have often been considered as unimportant or even as anomalous phenomena and consequently have been largely ignored by policy makers and researchers. Instead, attention was focussed on the large city or on rural development and agricultural change without consideration being given to the positive contribution that small towns can make to rural transformation.

But for the overwhelming majority of Africa's population which is rural, it is the small town with which they have the most frequent and intense contacts and which provides the foci for economic, social, political and cultural rural-urban interaction. The papers in this book address a wide range of issues relating to the small town in rural context from both the macro perspective, including the role of the state, to the micro perspective where attention is given to the vitality and adaptability of individual actors through their utilisation of rural and urban opportunities. Case studies are drawn from Botswana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, Somalia, Sudan, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 1990. , p. 268
Series
Seminar proceedings, ISSN 0281-0018 ; 23
Keywords [en]
Small towns, Urban development, Rural development, Conference papers, Africa
National Category
Political Science Social and Economic Geography
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URN: urn:nbn:se:nai:diva-345ISBN: 9171063056 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:nai-345DiVA, id: diva2:273655
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Small town Africa : studies in rural-urban interaction, Uppsala and Enköping, September 1989
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