Chapter 1 Introduction Setting the African Stage The Urban Revolution and Emerging Rural Revolution in Africa The Concept of "Africa" How to Write About Africa? sidebar The "New Africa" Growth Story Urbanization in Small Towns in East Africa sidebar Africa as a Millennium Development Frontier Urbanization in Africa in Consideration Conclusions Chapter 2 Reframing and Rerepresenting African Affairs Introduction Representing Africa: The Darkness Legacy "The Coming Anarchy" sidebar Moving from a World of Shadows into Splintering Light Social Media: Africa Reporting, Blogging Africa, and Africa Podcasting Africans'' Revisioning of Africa Unchaining Africa Ending the Looting of Africa Political Leadership Environmentalism of the Poor and Sustainable Development Ending Aid? Civil Society African Postcolonial Urbanists Conclusion Chapter 3 Africa''s Environments Introduction The Environment and International Development Agendas The Diversity of African Environments Africa''s Rainfall and Climate Change Africa''s Mineral Resources The Resource Curse or Cure? sidebar Coltan sidebar Environments of Africa''s Fisheries Somali Pirates: Responding to Africa''s Fish Rush? sidebar Human Environments Urban Environments and Ecological Footprints Conclusions Chapter 4 The "Scramble for Africa" and the State of European Geographic Knowledge on the Region Introduction Mary Kingsley (1862-1900) sidebar Timbuktu: Colonial Escapades and Unanswered Questions Colonial Motivations Africa''s Urban Past "Great Zimbabwe": An Urban History Almost Forgotten sidebar Colonial Legacies Geographies of Empire The Bungalow sidebar Urban Development and Planning the Colonial City Conclusions Chapter 5 Rural Africa Introduction Rural Development Themes and Policy Emphases: The Elusive Quest For Sustained Development The Green Revolution Africa''s Failed Green Revolution Africa''s New Green Revolution Genetically Modified (GM) Crops African Millennium Villages sidebar Rural Livelihoods: A Challenge to the Primacy of Small Farms? Pro-Poor Tourism Best Practices from Rural South Africa: Making African Game Parks Work for the Local Poor sidebar Gender in Rural Africa Girls in Rural Africa: Invisible Members of Society Conclusion Chapter 6 Africa''s Mobile Phone Revolution: Informal Economy, Creativity and Informal Spaces Introduction The Last Forty Years of Informal Economy Evolution and Sophistication in Africa Major Informal Economy Debates The African Informal Economy on the Ground International Informal Economy Entanglements: E-Waste in Africa sidebar The Diversity of Informal Workers, Soweto Township, South Africa sidebar Dynamism, Creativity and Informality Mobile Phones: "The New Talking Drums" of Everyday Africa Ushahidi: Built in Africa for the World Designing Sustainable Prototypes for Africa''s Informals Community-Led Enumerations and Mapping: Counting Lives and Building Community in Kibera, Kenya sidebar Slum Tourism and Shack Chic: Are They Good Ideas? sidebar Conclusions Chapter 7 Migration Introduction African Athletes and Global Sports Recruitment sidebar Colonial Policies and Migration Circular Migration Burkina Faso: Circular Migration in Time and Space sidebar Forced Migrants: Refugees and IDPs The Johannesburg Hub: How Many Foreigners Are Present? sidebar Migrant Remittances to Africa The Hawala System of Transfer in the Horn of Africa sidebar Transnational Houses sidebar Human Trafficking and Smuggling "Migrant Journeys in Pursuit of the South African Dream" sidebar Out of Africa: US and European Movements Conclusions Chapter 8 Water Introduction Africa''s Water Water and Sanitation: Colonialism to the Present Indigenous Knowledge of Water sidebar Water Grabbing sidebar Water and Poverty Transboundary Water Issues Virtual Water Water Footprint of Cut Flowers in Kenya: What Is the True Cost? sidebar Conclusions Chapter 9 Health Introduction Technology Bright Spots in Health Arenas sidebar Africa''s Disease Burden Africa''s Health Data Lacuna Sickness and Health: The Colonial Legacies of Inherited Health Systems The Nexus of International Health Policy and National Health Policies, 1980-Present HIV/AIDS: An Extraordinary African Struggle AIDS in Uganda: An Unfinished Success Story sidebar Global Health Funding Priorities, Emphases, and Omissions: Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) and Mental Health Mental Health in Africa sidebar Urban Health Traditional Medicine and Healers sidebar Conclusions Chapter 10 Land and Food Introduction Why Has Africa Become a Net Food Importing Region? Contemporary Agriculture in Africa: "The Great African Land Grab"? South Africans'' Next "Great Trek" into Africa sidebar Benefits and Risks of Land Investments Geographies of the FDI in African Agricultural Lands The Fairtrade Debate sidebar Ethical Wildflower Trade and Sustainability: Flower Valley, South Africa Arguments For and Against Large-Scale FDI in African Agricultural Land Urban Agriculture Cape Town: The Paradox of Urban Food Insecurity in a Food-Secure Country sidebar Conclusions Chapter 11 Climate Change Introduction Environmental Changes on Mount Kilimanjaro Climate Impacts on Africa The Human Impacts of Climate Change African Cities and Climate Change: An Urgent Agenda Is the Conflict in Darfur the World''s First Climate Change War? sidebar Global Climate Stalemate and Funding Intransigence: African Voices Indigenous Knowledge in Climate Change: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies in the African Sahel sidebar Conclusions Chapter 12 China and Africa Introduction China Returns to Africa Chinese Migration to Africa Chinese Entrepreneurs in Africa''s Informal Economies The African Diaspora in China: African Entrepreneurs in the "Dragon''s Den" China''s Infrastructure Investments to Africa: Building Bridges? China''s Stadium Diplomacy sidebar A Pathway to Economic Development: China''s Special Economic Zone in Lekki, Nigeria sidebar China and Zambia Relations sidebar Conclusions Chapter 13 African Futures Introduction Washington''s Engagement with Africa Africa''s Terrorism Threats Post-MDGs: Which Alternatives? Durable Strengths that Africa Can Draw On sidebar New Urban Futures Eko-Atlantic (Nigeria) sidebar Urban Sustainability Sseesamirembe, Uganda: Sustainable Utopias Going Awry in a Global World sidebar Evidence of an Unsustainable World Post-MDGs: The Sustainable Development Agenda Rethinking Urbanism Livable Urbanism Conclusion.