NJOH,Ambe J. <br/><br/>
Planning Power  Town planning and social control in  colonial Africa 

 -  UCL  2007 
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<br/><br/> the context of town and country planning. Planning councils or committees in, forinstance, British colonial Kenya were just as exclusive of native Africans as werecognate bodies in French colonial Madagascar. Also, it is hard to miss the fact thatFrench colonial towns such as Brazzaville, Congo and Conakry, Guinea were justas racially segregated as British colonial towns such as Freetown, Sierra Leone andLagos, Nigeria despite the theoretical differences in the racial ideologies of Frenchand British colonial authorities. Furthermore, French colonial Abidjan had as muchof an economic objective as did British colonial Lagos.