Publication
Springer (2018), Edition: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016, 246 pages
ISBN
3319812971 / 9783319812977
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CONTENTS
Introduction: Place Names in Africa: Colonial Urban Legacies, Entangled Histories
Sarah’s Globe and the (Un-)naming of Mobile Space / Michel Ben Arrous
Bagamoyo: Inquiry into an East African Place Name / Walter T. Brown
‘The Trees Are Yours’: Nature, Toponymy and Politics in the Interpretation of Cultural Landscapes in Lusaka and Zanzibar / Garth Myers
Transnational Aspects in the History of Lagos: Place Names and Built Forms / Liora Bigon, Robert Home
From ‘Avenue de France’ to ‘Boulevard Hassan II’: Toponymic Inscription and the Construction of Nationhood in Fes, Morocco / Samira Hassa
The Colonial Toponymic Model in the Capital Cities of French West Africa / Hélène d’Almeida-Topor
A Toponymy of Segregation: The ‘Neutral Zones’ of Dakar, Dar es Salaam and Kinshasa / Luce Beeckmans
Generic Terminology in Colonial Urban Contexts: Garden Cities Between Dakar and Tel Aviv / Liora Bigon, Yossi Katz
Letters, Words, Worlds: the Naming of Soweto / Gordon H. Pirie
South African Identity as Reflected by its Toponymic Tapestry / Barbara Meiring
M(g)r. De Hemptin(n)e, I Presume? Transforming Local Memory Through Toponymy in Colonial/Post-Colonial Lubumbashi, DR Congo / Johan Lagae, Sofie Boonen, Donatien Dia Mwembu Dibwe
Formal and Informal Toponymic Inscriptions in Maputo: Towards Socio-Linguistics and Anthropology of Street Naming / César Cumbe
Glocal Naming and Shaming: Toponymic (Inter-)National Relations on Lagos and New York Streets / Wale Adebanwi
Afterword / Ambe Njoh, Liora Bigon
Introduction: Place Names in Africa: Colonial Urban Legacies, Entangled Histories
Sarah’s Globe and the (Un-)naming of Mobile Space / Michel Ben Arrous
Bagamoyo: Inquiry into an East African Place Name / Walter T. Brown
‘The Trees Are Yours’: Nature, Toponymy and Politics in the Interpretation of Cultural Landscapes in Lusaka and Zanzibar / Garth Myers
Transnational Aspects in the History of Lagos: Place Names and Built Forms / Liora Bigon, Robert Home
From ‘Avenue de France’ to ‘Boulevard Hassan II’: Toponymic Inscription and the Construction of Nationhood in Fes, Morocco / Samira Hassa
The Colonial Toponymic Model in the Capital Cities of French West Africa / Hélène d’Almeida-Topor
A Toponymy of Segregation: The ‘Neutral Zones’ of Dakar, Dar es Salaam and Kinshasa / Luce Beeckmans
Generic Terminology in Colonial Urban Contexts: Garden Cities Between Dakar and Tel Aviv / Liora Bigon, Yossi Katz
Letters, Words, Worlds: the Naming of Soweto / Gordon H. Pirie
South African Identity as Reflected by its Toponymic Tapestry / Barbara Meiring
M(g)r. De Hemptin(n)e, I Presume? Transforming Local Memory Through Toponymy in Colonial/Post-Colonial Lubumbashi, DR Congo / Johan Lagae, Sofie Boonen, Donatien Dia Mwembu Dibwe
Formal and Informal Toponymic Inscriptions in Maputo: Towards Socio-Linguistics and Anthropology of Street Naming / César Cumbe
Glocal Naming and Shaming: Toponymic (Inter-)National Relations on Lagos and New York Streets / Wale Adebanwi
Afterword / Ambe Njoh, Liora Bigon