Kigali

"Samuel Shearer brilliantly exposes the heart-wrenching hypocrisy of Western-implemented ideas of sustainable urbanism and green capitalism in the Global South. This lucidly argued and elegantly written book is an important addition to a growing scholarship on urban humanities from Africa and on degrowth."--Kenda Mutongi, author of Matatu: A History of Popular Transportation in Nairobi "This book represents an impressive critique of the urban dreams and fantasies of the Kagame regime, and a re-envisioning of Kigali from below."--Garth Myers, Rethinking Urbanism: Lessons from Postcolonialism and the Global South "This is an innovative, insightful, and imaginative work that challenges stereotypes of Africa as backward or behind while emphasizing the vitality and resilience of African agency in remaking the popular city."--William Bissell, author of Urban Design, Chaos, and Colonial Power in Zanzibar "Shearer reconceptualizes sustainable urbanism and the urban humanities with a productive turn to the worldmaking practices of ordinary people in Kigali and to imaginative media. The resulting interdisciplinary analysis is beautifully written, bold, and brilliant as it construes the politics of repair underpinning everyday life in the face of capitalist regimes of dispossession."--Cajetan Iheka, author of African Ecomedia: Network Forms, Planetary Politics