Deborah Pellow 2008: Landlords and Lodgers: Socio-spatial Organization in an Accra Community. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.

摘要

Landlords and Lodgers fs a study on African urban life based on long-term research in a specific Accra settlement. The book is written as an ethnography, consisting of eight chapters that are mainly descriptive in nature. The book starts off with an introduction to the research setting named Sabon Zongo (zongo is a Hausa word that means strangers' quarter). This settlement, with its 25,000 inhabitants, was founded in 1910 by Nigerian Hausa leader Malam Bako, a Muslim, as a place of refuge; other 'strangers' who had come to Accra joined later. The book explores the socio-spatial evolution of the settlement as well as processes of identity formation and place attachment, referred to as zongo-ness. The aim of the book is to gain a better understanding of post-colonial urban environments.