Place Names in Africa: Colonial Urban Legacies, Entangled Histories (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

1. Introduction: Place Names in Africa: Colonial Urban Legacies, Entangled Histories.- 2. Sarah's Globe and the (Un-)naming of Mobile Space.- 3. Bagamoyo: Inquiry into an East African Place Name.- 4. 'The Trees are Yours': Nature, Toponymy and Politics in the Interpretation of Cultural Landscapes in Lusaka and Zanzibar.- 5. Transnational Aspects in the History of Lagos: Place Names and Built Forms.- 6. From 'Avenue de France' to 'Boulevard Hassan II': Toponymic Inscription and the Construction of Nationhood in Fes, Morocco.- 7. The Colonial Toponymic Model in the Capital Cities of French West Africa.- 8. A Toponymy of Segregation: the 'neutral zones' of Dakar, Dar es Salaam and Kinshasa.- 9. Generic Terminology in Colonial Urban Contexts: Garden Cities between Dakar and Tel Aviv.- 10. Letters, Words, Worlds: the Naming of Soweto.- 11. South African Identity as Reflected by its Toponymic Tapestry.- 12. M(g)r. De Hemptin(n)e, I presume? Transforming Local Memory through Toponymy in Colonial/Post-Colonial Lubumbashi, DR Congo.- 13. Formal and Informal Toponymic Inscriptions in Maputo: towards Socio-Linguistics and Anthropology of Street Naming.- 14. Glocal Naming and Shaming: Toponymic (Inter-)national Relations on Lagos and New York Streets.- 15. Afterword.