ABSTRACT
This volume has offered a combination of empirical studies with attempts to make theoretical sense of the organisation and politics of informal transport provisions in African cities. The contributions to this volume present case studies ranging from Lagos and Kinshasa to Dar es Salaam and Nairobi via Cape Town. The authors emphasise various aspects of informal transport provisions in African cities, but all advance empirical and theoretical debates about the organisation, intricate political processes and rhythms that animate the perception and practice of informal transport in urban Africa. Several chapters in this volume show how formality and informality are closely intertwined, and how the public and the private realms are straddled by both state and non-state agents and interconnected through mediation and brokerage.
