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By Ato Quayson

ISBN-10: 082235733X

ISBN-13: 9780822357339

ISBN-10: 082235747X

ISBN-13: 9780822357476

In Oxford road, Accra, Ato Quayson analyzes the dynamics of Ghana's capital urban via a spotlight on Oxford road, a part of Accra's such a lot shiny and globalized advertisement district. He lines the city's evolution from its payment within the mid-seventeenth century to the current day. He combines his impressions of the attractions, sounds, interactions, and distribution of house with broader dynamics, together with the histories of colonial and postcolonial city making plans and the marks of transnationalism obvious in Accra's salsa scene, gymnasium tradition, and advertisement billboards. Quayson unearths that many of the making plans platforms that experience formed the city—and had their stratifying results intensified by way of the IMF-mandated structural adjustment courses of the past due 1980s—prepared the best way for the early-1990s transformation of a mostly residential local right into a kinetic procuring district. With an excessive commercialism overlying, or coexisting with, stark financial inequalities, Oxford highway is a microcosm of old and concrete procedures that experience made Accra the variegated and contradictory city that it really is today.

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