Across the Copperbelt Urban & Social Change in Central Africa's Borderland Communities

The first comparative historical analysis - local, national and transnational - of the cross-border Central African copperbelt; a key work in studies of labour, urbanisation and African studies. The Central African Copperbelt, encompassing the mining communities of Katanga (DR Congo) and Zambia, has...

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Other Authors: Larmer, Miles (Editor), Guene, Enid (Editor), Henriet, Benoît (Editor)
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Language:English
Published: Woodbridge Boydell & Brewer 2021
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