Overview: Provides an in-depth study of place names history and culture in Africa.Highlights the urbanist view on both traditional and recent place naming studies.Embraces a historical naming process accompanyiThis 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-c
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