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This short chapter concludes our team effort of elaborating on the grammar of toponymic expressions in urban Africa, historicise and contextualise their inherent characteristics, ambiguities and tensions, and exposing their capillary power. It calls for further works focusing on the global South, in order to enrich our toponymic insights and historiographies by closing the gap between the northern and the southern hemispheres.
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Sanjay Subrahmanyam, ‘Connected Histories: Notes towards a Reconfiguration of Early Modern Eurasia’, Modern Asian Studies, 31, 3 (1997), pp. 735–762 (pp. 761–762).
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As suggested, regarding the notion histoire croisée, in: Michael Werner and Bénédicte Zimmermann, ‘Beyond Comparison: Histoire Croisée and the Challenge of Reflexivity’, History and Theory, 45, 1 (2006), pp. 30–50.
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Steven Feierman, ‘African Histories and the Dissolution of World History’, in: Robert Bates, V. Y. Mudimbe and Jean O’Barr (eds), Africa and the Disciplines: The Contributions of Research in Africa to the Social Sciences and Humanities (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1993), pp. 167–212 (pp. 198–199).
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Njoh, A., Bigon, L. (2016). Afterword. In: Bigon, L. (eds) Place Names in Africa. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32485-2_15
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