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‘Better housing conditions are of vital importance to the ordinary man’: slum clearance in post-war Khartoum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2015

GARETH CURLESS
GARETH CURLESS*
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Department of History, Amory Building, University of Exeter, EX4 4RJ, UK
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Abstract:

As the population of Khartoum increased during the 1940s, the Sudan government sought to demolish the Deims that surrounded the southern edge of the city and relocate the residents to a new planned site. Here, it was envisaged that improved housing would help to create ‘modern’, model families. However, like many of the post-war housing projects in British Africa, the resettlement of the Deims was undermined by poor planning, inadequate financial support and resistance from residents, who rejected the colonial planners’ vision of how domestic life should be organized.

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Urban History , Volume 43 , Issue 4 , November 2016 , pp. 557 - 576
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