Hans Peter Hahn & Kristin Kastner 
Urban Life-Worlds in Motion 
African Perspectives

Urban agglomerations host the most vital and creative societies. This applies particularly to Africa, where cities have the highest growth rates world-wide and where the urban population is younger than anywhere else. Urban life-worlds are the basis for the development of new lifestyles and new cultural phenomena. Based on empirical ethnographic research, this book presents case studies that enhance our understanding of the dynamics of urbanity in Africa and beyond – by envisioning cities as crossroads where cultures, biographies and networks meet.

About the author

Hans Peter Hahn is professor of anthropology at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main. His research interests include material culture and globalisation. In addition to international museum cooperation projects, he has conducted ethnographic research on migration in West Africa, consumer goods and mobile phones.
Kristin Kastner (Dr. phil.) is research assistant at the Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main (Germany). She has recently completed her doctoral thesis on Nigerian migrants on their way to Europe. Her research interests include the anthropology of the body, anthropology of borders, mobility and migration.