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This project investigates the cultural significance of dirt in urban Africa, exploring its implications for sexuality, waste management, and urbanization. It aims to provide a comparative historical perspective on local understandings of dirt in cities like Nairobi and Lagos.
Dirt permeates everyday life in urban Africa, but it is more than an empirical substance: dirt is also an idea—or a complex set of representations—that shapes local perceptions of sexuality and the body, and influences people’s attitudes towards waste, recycling, urbanisation, ethnicity and migration.
Dirt is a vital category for understanding urban cultures in Africa, and it has a history that has yet to be examined in detail.
Besides the work of epidemiologists and occasional anthropological a…
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