Reconsidering Colonial Heritage in West African Cities: Urban Space in Cape Verde, Senegal and the Gambia

This book discusses the varying responses to colonial heritage in West African cities, with a focus on Praia in Cape Verde, Dakar in Senegal, and Banjul in the Gambia. Combining insights from political sciences, history, critical geography, heritage studies and urban planning, the book will interest a range of researchers.

Krzysztof Górny is a political and historical geographer specialising in research on cities and countries of Sub-Saharan Africa, where he conducts field research (e.g. in Ghana, Senegal, The Gambia, Rwanda or Guinea-Bissau). He works at the Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies at the University of Warsaw, where he teaches classes on political geography, historical geography, international conflicts, history and geography of Africa as well as urban studies. In 2020, he defended his doctoral dissertation entitled ＂Colonial heritage in contemporary urban space of West African cities＂. He publishes articles in renowned international journals, such as Planning Perspectives, Journal of Urban History, Journal of Baltic Studies, Miscellanea Geographica or Land.