ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a social mapping of Africans in the city through the analysis of grassroots forms of organisation. It discusses issues of placemaking and mobility and offers an insight into the complex relations between transnational movement, emplacement, identity, ‘homing’, and citizenship. I theorise African transient emplacements in the city through what I call ‘precarious homing’, a term that helps explain the life conditions that subjects on the move transnationally have to negotiate, and the strategies they design to do that.
