African Futures: Essays on Crisis, Emergence, and Possibility
African Futures: Essays on Crisis, Emergence, and Possibility
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Abstract
Civil wars, corporate exploitation, AIDS, and Ebola—but also democracy, burgeoning cities, and unprecedented communication and mobility: the future of Africa has never been more uncertain. Indeed, that future is one of the most complex issues in contemporary anthropology, as evidenced by the incredible wealth of ideas offered in this landmark volume. A consortium comprised of some of the most important scholars of Africa today, this book surveys an intellectual landscape of opposed perspectives in order to think within the contradictions that characterize this central question: Where is Africa headed? The essays in this book address Africa’s future as it is embedded within various social and cultural forms emerging on the continent today: the reconfiguration of the urban, the efflorescence of signs and wonders and gospels of prosperity, the assorted techniques of legality and illegality, lotteries and Ponzi schemes, apocalyptic visions, a yearning for exile, and many other phenomena. Bringing together social, political, religious, and economic viewpoints, the book reveals not one but multiple prospects for the future of Africa. In doing so, it offers a pathbreaking model of pluralistic and open-ended thinking and a powerful tool for addressing the vexing uncertainties that underlie so many futures around the world.
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Front Matter
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Introduction: Untimely Africa?
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Part One Rethinking Crisis
Janet Roitman -
Part Two Emergent Economies
Jane I. Guyer-
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Money in the Future of Africans
Jane I. Guyer
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Forensics of Capital
Michael Ralph
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Seven
Brokering Revolution: Imagining Future War on the West African Borderlands
Danny Hoffman
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Hedging the Future
Charles Piot
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Entangled Postcolonial Futures: Malagasy Marriage Migrants and Provincial Frenchmen
Jennifer Cole
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Five
Money in the Future of Africans
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Part Three Urban Spaces and Local Futures
Abdoumaliq Simone-
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Rough Towns: Mobilizing Uncertainty in Kinshasa
Abdoumaliq Simone
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Eleven
Local Futures, the Future of the Local: Urban Living in a Central African Metropolis
Filip De Boeck
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Twelve
Changing Mobilities, Shifting Futures
Peter Geschiere andAntoine Socpa
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Thirteen
Time and Again: Locality as Future Anterior in Mozambique
Juan Obarrio
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Rough Towns: Mobilizing Uncertainty in Kinshasa
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Part Four Possibilities
Brad Weiss -
End Matter
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