Biographies List of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Post-Global City Formations: Technology and Africa's Urban Futures Omolade Adunbi, Katrien Pype, and Michael M.J. Fischer Chapter 1: The Post-Global City. South-South Geographies and Political Affects in Kinshasa's Emerging Tech Scene Katrien Pype Chapter 2: Technologies of Dream Life and the Life of Dreams in Afrodystopia Joseph Tonda, translated by Katrien Pype Chapter 3. Inga as Enclave: The (Dis)comfort of Being Serious Men Barbara Carbon Chapter 4: Enchanting Urban Futures through Geothermal Explorations in Nakuru, Kenya Nick Rahier Chapter 5: Dreaming About X-Rays in Kikwit: Visibility, Medical Technology, and Fracture Care in an Intermediate Congolese City Trisha Phippard Chapter 6: The "Bend-Skin": A Connector in and Co-Constructor of Mbouda; or, How Post-Global Flows Enable Urban Mobility Vivien M. Meli, translated by Victoria Bernal and Katrien Pype Chapter 7 Technicity and Co-Citizenship: Campus Connectivity in Tanzania Koen Stroeken and Mohamed Ghasia Chapter 8: Digital Technology and Urban Entrepreneurship: Gendered Tacticsof Online Entrepreneurship in and from Prewar Khartoum Griet Steel Chapter 9. The Oil Cities: Urbanity, Engineers, and Innovators in the Construction of Refineries in Nigeria Omolade Adunbi Bibliography Index.
The Post-Global City : Theorizing Technology Cultures in Urban Africa