Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: housing issues and policies in contemporary African societies / Minion K.C. Morrison
  • Public and private housing in urban West Africa: the social implications / Sandra T. Barnes
  • Housing the urban poor: design and public policy issues in West Africa / John Paden
  • Commentary on housing in West Africa / Minion K.C. Morrison and Deborah Pellow
  • Intra-urban mobility and low income housing: the case of Nairobi, Kenya / J.W. Muwonge
  • Housing policy and the state in East Africa / Richard Stren
  • Commentary on housing in East Africa / Marshall Segall
  • Conclusion: the political economy of housing / Peter C.W. Gutkind.