Includes bibliographical references (p. [x]) and index.

Global discontent : abjection & the aftermath of modernism / James G. Ferguson -- Excerpts from Modernization : protest & change / S.N. Eisenstadt -- Fanti national constitution : administrative questions / John Mensah Sarbah -- The World Bank's changing discourse on development : from reliance on the state & "modernizing elites" to "bypassing the state" / World Bank -- Excerpts from Anthropology & development : understanding contemporary social change / Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan -- Excerpts from Buying futures : the upsurge of female entrepreneurship : crossing the formal/informal divide in southwest Cameroon / Margaret Niger-Thomas -- Report of the expedition sent by the government of Natal to instal Cetywayo as King of the Zulus / Theophilus Shepstone -- Ujamaa : the basis of African socialism / Julius Kambarage Nyerere -- The African Renaissance, South Africa & the world / Thabo Mbeki -- The pidginization of Luguru politics : administrative ethnography & the paradoxes of indirect rule / Peter Pels -- The resurgence of chiefs : retribalisation & modernity / Lungisile Ntsebeza -- Chiefs! Law, power & culture in contemporary South Africa / Barbara Oomen -- The African road to socialism / Leopold Sedar Senghor -- Society & ideology / Kwame Nkrumah -- African identities / Kwame Anthony Appiah -- Fait missionnaire & politics of the belly : a Foucaultian reading / Jean-Francois Bayart -- Rheumatic irony : questions of agency & self-deception as refracted through the art of living with spirits / Michael Lambek -- The new African : between nativism & cosmopolitanism / Achille Mbembe -- Staging Politisi : the dialogics of publicity & secrecy in Sierra Leone / Mariane Ferme -- Kinshasa : tales of the "invisible city" & the second world / Filip de Boeck -- On the worlding of African cities / Abdoumaliq Simone -- Degraded images, distorted sounds : Nigerian video & the infrastructure of piracy / Brian Larkin -- Kwaku's car : the struggles & stories of a Ghanaian long-distance taxi driver / Jojada Verrips, Birgit Meyer -- Witch-hunting & political legitimacy : continuity & change in Green Valley, Lebowa, 1930-91 / Isak A. Niehaus -- The Convert : act one scene III & act two scene III / Francis Nyamnjoh -- Aura & icon in contemporary Senegal -- Between Paris and Bacongo & Dandies in Bacongo / Justin-Daniel Gandoulou -- Evolués & Feymen : old & new figures of modernity in Cameroon / Basile Ndijio -- A successful life in the illegal realm : smugglers & road bandits in the Chad basin / Janet Roitman.