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AFRICAN SEMINARS: SCHOLARSHIP FROM THE INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN INSTITUTE

Volume 2

HOUSING AFRICAS URBAN POOR

HOUSING AFRICAS URBAN POOR

Edited by
PHILIP AMIS AND PETER LLOYD

First published in 1990 by Manchester University Press in association with the International African Institute

This edition first published in 2019
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1990 International African Institute

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ISBN: 978-1-138-33510-3 (Set)
ISBN: 978-0-429-44366-4 (Set) (ebk)
ISBN: 978-1-138-33457-1 (Volume 2) (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-429-44513-2 (Volume 2) (ebk)

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HOUSING AFRICAS URBAN POOR

EDITED BY
Philip Amis and Peter Lloyd

Copyright International African Institute 1990

Published by Manchester University Press
Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
and Room 400, 175 Fifth Avenue,
New York, NY 10010, USA

Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada
by St. Martins Press, Inc.,
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British Library cataloguing in publication data

Housing Africas urban poor.(International African seminars: New series; no. 4).

1. Africa. Urban regions. Housing

I. Amis, Philip II. Lloyd, P. C. (Peter Cutt), 1927

III. International African Institute IV. Series
363.5096

Library of Congress cataloging in publication data

Housing Africas urban poor/edited by Philip Amis and Peter Lloyd.
p. cm. (International African seminars; new ser., no. 4)
ISBN 0-7190-3020-X

1. Urban poor Housing Africa. 2. Urban poor Housing Government policy Africa. I. Amis, Philip, 1956 . II. Lloyd, Peter Cutt. III. International African Institute. IV. Series.
HD7287.96.A4H67 1989
363.58096dc20 8912657

ISBN 0-7190-3020-X hardback

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Printed in Great Britain
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Tade Akin Aina studied sociology at the University of Lagos, the London School of Economics, and the University of Sussex. He is currently a Senior Lecturer at the University of Lagos and has been a member of the University of Lagos Human Settlements Study Group a multidisciplinary research team on human settlements since 1980.

Philip Amis was until recently a Lecturer in the Development and Project Planning Centre of the University of Bradford. He is now a Lecturer in the Development Administration Group, School of Public Policy at the University of Birmingham.

Seth Opuni Asiama lectures in Land Economy at the University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana. He was awarded a PhD at the University of Birmingham for his work on land reform in Ghana. His research interests include the social and economic implications of housing in Third World countries, and he has written many articles in scholarly journals.

John Campbell conducted fieldwork on urban development and politics in southern Ghana for his doctoral thesis at Sussex University. Between 1981 and 1985 he was a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; and later Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Sussex. His interests range from urban politics to urban planning and housing policy.

Michel Coquery is Professor at the French Institute of Town Planning, University of Paris VIII. He has worked extensively on urban planning and development in West and Central Africa for the past two decades.

Michael Edwards was educated at the Universities of Oxford and London, where he was awarded a PhD for his work on renting in Colombia. In 1982 he joined VSO as a Development Officer, moving in 1984 to become Oxfams Representative for Zambia and Malawi, based in Lusaka. He is currently spending a year at the Guruder Peeth ashram in Ganeshpuri, India, where he works as a volunteer on village development programmes. He maintains a continuing interest in renting and rental housing.

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