Focusing on the anthropology of urban life in Africa, the book explores the insights ethnography offers into the experiences and perspectives of African city dwellers. It emphasizes the vital contributions of female, African, and Diaspora scholars in shaping a new understanding of urban anthropology on the continent, shedding light on the unique practices and reflections of urban populations.
When valuable minerals are discovered in areas in which government control is weak or contested, artisanal mining springs up and creates new communities, new forms of bonding and alliance, and new divisions and hostilities, or new forms of Integration and Conflict. Since the beginning of the 2000s there has been a boom in studies about non-industrial mining in Africa, but there is still a lot of work to be done, especially about the social worlds.