The Essay: Africa in the City

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The Essay: Africa in the City: Cape Town

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Lindsay Johns ends a series of essays on cities changed by African migration in Cape Town.

Lindsay Johns concludes his series of essays on cities influenced by African migration in Cape Town.

Writer and broadcaster Lindsay Johns ends his series of essays on cities influenced by African migration in Cape Town.

Making his way around a city he knows intimately, respects abundantly and loves profusely, Lindsay asks what it means to be Capetonian. From the city's tragic racial history and its legacy, to the wave of migration from elsewhere in Africa, this is a place whose identity is constantly shifting. And as he concludes his series of essays, Lindsay ponders his own ambivalent feelings towards this demographic, political, social, spiritual change. 

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Lindsay Johns takes a tour of five cities which have been influenced by African migration.

Lindsay Johns introduces his new series of essays on great cities which have been influenced by African migration.

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