Ricerc@Sapienza

Some specific places in Durban have been changing identity and functions throughout history and these can still be considered places of “changes”. Durban’s precolonial origins suggests that there are cities introducing new perspectives on space, sociality and life in a African city providing a conceptual tool shifting the interpretation from precolonial to post-apartheid Durban. The spacial and social creolisation of the pre-colonial period have left an important legacy in Durban and beyond. Any reading of culture must thus take into account of mutuality and entanglement.