Title: Who Feeds the City?
Subtitle: Informality, Urban Survival, and the Political Economy of African Markets
Subject Classification:  African Studies, Global South Studies, Economics and Finance  
BIC Classification: KCL, JPF, JHBC
BISAC Classification: SOC026030, BUS069030, SOC042000
Binding: Hardback, eBook
Planned publication date: Sep 2026
ISBN (Hardback): 978-1-80866-102-0
ISBN (eBook): 978-1-80866-103-7

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Description

In the face of explosive urban expansion across Africa, a fundamental problem emerges: how do sprawling cities sustain millions of inhabitants with little formal infrastructure or employment? Who Feeds the City? confronts this question, offering a detailed examination of the informal food economy. Through vivid, multi-sited ethnographic studies in cities including Lagos, Accra, and Nairobi, it reveals the informal market not as a collection of fragmented survival tactics, but as a highly sophisticated, self-coordinating system governed by its own internal logic, relational trust, and adaptive logistics. The book meticulously maps the decentralized supply chains and social networks that actually work, arguing that recognizing and understanding this resilient, life-sustaining system is essential for the future of urban Africa. lt is an important work for scholars and policymakers looking at Africa and the Global South.

Biography

Author(s):  Dr Aaron Nyanama is a Liberian scholar of governance, institutional reform, and African political economy, with an interdisciplinary research focus on urban informality, economic ethics, and epistemic sovereignty. His scholarship aims to expose some of the blind spots of conventional economic management, and challenge orthodox paradigms.

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