Place Names in Africa : Colonial Urban Legacies, Entangled Histories - Bigon, Liora; SpringerLink (Online service) (Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016)
1. Introduction: Place Names in Africa: Colonial Urban Legacies, Entangled Histories -- 2. Sarah's Globe and the (Un-)naming of Mobile Space -- 3. Bagamoyo: Inquiry into an East African Place Name -- 4. 'The Trees are Yours': Nature, Toponymy and Politics in the Interpretation of Cultural Landscapes in Lusaka and Zanzibar -- 5. Transnational Aspects in the History of Lagos: Place Names and Built Forms -- 6. From 'Avenue de France' to 'Boulevard Hassan II': Toponymic Inscription and the Construction of Nationhood in Fes, Morocco -- 7. The Colonial Toponymic Model in the Capital Cities of French West Africa -- 8. A Toponymy of Segregation: the 'neutral zones' of Dakar, Dar es Salaam and Kinshasa -- 9. Generic Terminology in Colonial Urban Contexts: Garden Cities between Dakar and Tel Aviv -- 10. Letters, Words, Worlds: the Naming of Soweto -- 11. South African Identity as Reflected by its Toponymic Tapestry -- 12. M(g)r. De Hemptin(n)e, I presume? Transforming Local Memory through Toponymy in Colonial/Post-Colonial Lubumbashi, DR Congo -- 13. Formal and Informal Toponymic Inscriptions in Maputo: towards Socio-Linguistics and Anthropology of Street Naming -- 14. Glocal Naming and Shaming: Toponymic (Inter-)national Relations on Lagos and New York Streets -- 15. Afterword.
Keywords: Ecosystems; Urban geography; Culture-Study and teaching; Ecosystems; Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns).; Regional and Cultural Studies