The Segregated City in British and French Colonial Africa

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Abstract

A number of different techniques and rationales were used by the French and British colonial authorities to racially segregate cities in Africa - from the use of planning by-laws requiring European building materials, to the requiring of fluency in European languages in specific areas of towns. Here, the ways in which town planning policies were used to segregate cities in Madagascar, Congo, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Nigeria are considered.

Original languageAmerican English
JournalRace Class
Volume49
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 1 2008

Keywords

  • colonialism
  • racial segregation
  • social control
  • urban planning

Disciplines

  • Earth Sciences

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