Verandahs of Power: Colonialism and Space in Urban Africa

This work focuses on the creation of, and struggle over, urban order in four cities in Eastern and Southern Africa, namely Nairobi, Lusaka, Zanzibar, and Lilongwe, and the workings of power in the planning processes for each city. It covers colonial rule and postcolonial inheritance in these cities

Garth Andrew Myers is an associate professor in the Departments of Geography and African/African-American Studies at the University of Kansas. His main research interests are in the political, historical, and cultural dimensions of urban development in Africa.