ABSTRACT
One of the most remarkable features of Cape Town is how un-African it can feel. There are, of course, the ubiquitous reminders of ‘being in Africa’ at tourist locations, and there are black faces on the streets and shops of the central city. But unless one spends time in the African townships of Langa, Nyanga and Khayelitsha, or in the innumerable informal settlements in Cape Town, it would be easy to forget that this is a city on the African continent.
