This article explores the everyday lives that African migrants in Durban, South Africa share with other residents of the city. In conversation with Obvious Katsaura's work on ‘ethno-mutualism’, we use the example of ordinary greeting practices to show how Durban's urban everyday has been hijacked by xenophobic sensibilities. By demonstrating how the act of excluding migrants from these practices threatens to render the quotidian city uninhabitable for them, we shed light on the importance of mundane forms of social interaction for building a sense of identity and belonging. We then consider several ways in which African migrants develop and participate in Muslim forms of sociality that assist them in ‘disarming’ the urban everyday: from providing a platform for building solidarity with fellow migrants to mediating a ‘sense of welcome’ from the established Indian South African community. Elaborating on this, we delineate how forms of reciprocity emerge through the interactions between migrant and Indian Muslims that reproduce the ambient life of the city as a shared habitat, opening up new possibilities for entanglement. As such, our analysis contributes to emerging conversations about urban mutuality and migrant religious practices in the everyday lives of African cities.

本文探讨了南非德班的非洲移民与该市其他居民分享的日常生活。在与Obvious Katsaura在“民族相互主义”方面的工作进行对话时，我们以普通的问候习惯为例，说明德班的都市日常如何被仇外心理所劫持。通过说明将移民排除在这些行为之外的行为如何威胁到使quotidian城市对他们来说不适合居住，我们阐明了世俗形式的社会互动形式对于树立认同感和归属感的重要性。然后，我们考虑非洲移民发展和参与穆斯林形式的社交活动的几种方式，这些方式可以帮助他们每天使城市“解除武装”：从提供建立与移民同胞的团结的平台到调解已建立的印度南非社区的“欢迎感”。在此基础上，我们描述了如何通过移民与印度穆斯林之间的互动来形成互惠形式，这些互动将城市的周围环境复制为共享的栖息地，从而为纠缠开辟了新的可能性。因此，我们的分析有助于在非洲城市的日常生活中开展有关城市互助和移民宗教习俗的新兴对话。