Introduction: Place names in Africa: Colonial urban legacies, entangled histories

Liora Bigon

doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32485-2_1

Introduction: Place names in Africa: Colonial urban legacies, entangled histories

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Enframing the collective volume, this chapter elaborates on the distinctiveness of this volume and its contribution to recent critical place-names studies in terms of aims, scope, geography and methodology. It also provides an indept historiographic analysis in the field of toponymy against the background of (post-)colonial urban environments in Africa. Implying on a variety of toponymic inter-crossings between time spans, spatialities, scales and (post-)colonial legacies, the advantage of using the relational analytic approach of the ‘entangled’ in this context is brought into light.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Place Names in Africa
Subtitle of host publication	Colonial Urban Legacies, Entangled Histories
Pages	1-25
Number of pages	25
ISBN (Electronic)	9783319324852
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32485-2_1
State	Published - 1 Jan 2016
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

(Post-)colonial history
African toponymy
Colonial heritage
Colonial space
Place-names historiography
Pre-colonial settlement
Urbanism

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General Environmental Science
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
General Social Sciences

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