ABSTRACT
There are a surprisingly large number of cities globally where race, caste, traditional authority control, royalty or even competing political juris dictions define the rules in such a way that residents cannot move freely across urban systems of housing, land or services (Demissie, 2012). That said, for mally or institutionally segregated cities tend to be concentrated in the Global South, where resources are limited, urban inequality is more pronounced and local democracy is less developed. Segregation is so much a part o f Afri ca’s urban development that a brutally segregated division of the city - often
attributed to colonial legacies - is sometimes seen as its hallmark (O’Connor, 1983; Simon, 1992).
