Suchergebnisse

1. Introduction -- 2. Theorizing planning and economic informality in an African city -- 3. Economic informality in Nairobi between 1980 and 2010 -- 4. Women in Nairobi -- 5. Women, mobility and economic informality -- 6. Women in economic informality in Nairobi -- 7. The quest for spatial justice: from the margins to the centre -- 8. Women's collective organizations and economic informality -- 9. Conclusion.

The persistence of Indigenous African markets in the context of a hostile or neglectful business and policy environment makes them worthy of analysis. An investigation of Afrocentric business ethics is long overdue. Attempting to understand the actions and efforts of informal traders and artisans from their own points of view, and analysing how they organise and get by, allows for viable approaches to be identified to integrate them into global urban models and cultures. Using the utu-ubuntu model to understand the activities of traders and artisans in Nairobi's markets, this book explores how, despite being consistently excluded and disadvantaged, they shape urban spaces in and around the city, and contribute to its development as a whole. With immense resilience, and without discarding their own socio-cultural or economic values, informal traders and artisans have created a territorial complex that can be described as the African metropolis. African Markets and the Utu-buntu Business Model sheds light on the ethics and values that underpin the work of traders and artisans in Nairobi, as well as their resilience and positive impact on urbanisation. This book makes an important contribution to the discourse on urban economics and planning in African cities.

Small-scale enterprise geographical concentrations are a common feature in Nairobi and other urban centres. Rarely do small enterprises exist singly in a given space. Small enterprise entrepreneurs operate in close proximity to each other or in groups comprising as few as two members or groups with as many as five hundred entrepreneurs. This study investigates this phenomenon to establish whether these clusters serve as a basis for collective efficiency. It is based on two enterprise concentrations - Ziwani in Nairobi and Kigandaini in Thika Town. (DÜI-Hff)

At independence, Anglophone African countries or the former British colonies inherited a structural and spatial pattern of industries incapable of contributing significantly to sustainable rural development and nationally integrated economies. In the subsequent post-independence period, efforts in some countries were made in their industrial planning and implementation processes to restructure the inherited pattern, but not much success has been attained. To date, industrialization and rural development have made little impact in many of the Anglophone African countries. The central argument of this article is that the inherited characteristics and pattern of industrialization in the Anglophone African countries are incapable of contributing significantly to sustainable rural development and balanced nationally integrated economies and there is need for a new industrial allocation pattern. The article discusses the characteristics and evolving trends in industrialization and rural development and makes suggestions for the future.