Reconstruction of african cities

Abstract

This article presents the 2004 book For the City Yet to Come: Changing African Life in Four Cities, by AbdouMaliq Simone, who has spent more than twenty years studying African cities as an activist, teacher, researcher and NGO advisor. and local governments. The author shows us the nuances, obscurities and creativity behind the urban life of the various Africas and elaborates a critical analysis of the suffering and injustices of urban life. Simone contests the conventional view of “failed cities”, arguing that the understanding of urban centers in Africa involves knowing the historical origins of each city in particular and, not least, also getting to know the local knowledge, which is strongly imbued in the culture, which are reflected in the “informal” social, economic and political systems that give life and form to cities(Since there is