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Householders were supposed to light candles through the night to encourage safety; in fact, generally Cairo had a reputation for low rates of crime. Neighbourhood streets were not in any event much frequented by strangers after dark and the hara was often closed off then. 12:25 P1: JZZ 0521821096c01 CUFX035/Freund 0 521 82109 6 URBAN LIFE EMERGES IN AFRICA printer:cupusbw October 18, 2006 31 Cairo had a structure of municipal authority responsible to the state which became more complex with time.
10 In his massive history of Asante, Ivor Wilks places the greatest weight by far on the political culture of the region in explaining the growth of Kumase. Asante was very active commercially in its heyday, trading gold and kola nuts over long distances. But commerce was not primarily handled in Kumase. And Kintampo, the great northern market town, which dealt with the northern trade, seems to have been a city of relatively ephemeral dwellings and little political weight. Kumase was a city, but one that depended very one-sidedly on the physical imposition and needs of a powerful king; it is difficult to understand otherwise as an urban space.
Some four thousand patients a day are said to have been brought there. The structure was linked to a madrasa and to a mausoleum that survives to the present. Cairo did not have slums in the way they are understood by modern urbanists. This was a city where most of the poor were incorporated into more affluent households as servants and slaves. However, if later evidence can be extrapolated backwards, the urban periphery housed migrants and poor people who at least in later times resided in crowded courtyard complexes owned by landlords.
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