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Place Names in Africa; Colonial Urban Legacies, Entangled Histories

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This volume examines the discursive relations between indigenous, colonial and post-colonial legacies of place-naming in Africa in terms of the production of urban space and place. It is conducted by tracing and analysing place-naming processes, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa during colonial times (British, French, Belgian, Portuguese), with a considerable attention to both the pre-colonial and post-colonial situations.
By combining in-depth area studies research – some of the contributions are of ethnographic quality – with colonial history, planning history and geography, the authors intend to show that culture matters in research on place names.
This volume goes beyond the recent understanding obtained in critical studies of nomenclature, normally based on lists of official names, that place naming reflects the power of political regimes, nationalism, and ideology.

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939.7 BIG p

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Switzerland : Springer Cham., 2016

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XVII, 229

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English

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978-3-319-32485-2

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939.7

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text

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computer

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online resource

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1

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Sejarah Afrika Kuno

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Liora Bigon

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Erwin

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https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-319-32485-2

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