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"Through the technique of combining the intellectual and the emotive, in the best traditions of ethnographic analysis, the author compels the reader not only to 'see' what the struggle for (and against) belonging in the city entails but also to 'feel' it."--Wale Adebanwi, author of How to Become a Big Man in Africa: Subalternity, Elites, and Ethnic Politics in Contemporary Nigeria

"A truly multidisciplinary piece of scholarship that weaves personal experiences, colonial history, and post-colonial city planning with critical conceptions of time and space."--Awet Weldemichael, author of Third World Colonialism and Strategies of Liberation

"The discourse surrounding urbanized Africans has been a perennial topic in colonial and postcolonial studies of Africa. Yet Anti-Urbanism has never been written about in such a personal, thoughtful, and vivid manner. Ng'weno's book offers a new and erudite perspective on this contested subject."--Kenda Mutongi, author of Matatu: A History of Popular Transportation in Nairobi

"No Place Like Home in a New City is an innovative analysis of space, belonging, and the reverberations of colonial city planning in Nairobi. Bettina Ng'weno's incisive and engagingly written book seamlessly threads the city's history through the lived experiences of, and struggles against, discriminatory state policies, illuminating alternative urban visions that likewise defined Nairobi. With implications for cities around the world, this book deserves a wide audience."--Jeremy Prestholdt, author of Domesticating the World: African Consumerism and the Genealogies of Globalization and founding co-editor of Monsoon: Journal of the Indian Ocean Rim

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