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Civil society and the political imagination in Africa : critical perspectives / edited by John L. and Jean Comaroff. - Chicago (USA) : University of Chicago Press, 1999. - xi, 318 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Practicing citizenship in imperial Paris / Gary Wilder -- Developing Bushmen: building civil(ized) society in the Kalahari and beyond / Elizabeth Garland -- Civil society and its presuppositions: lessons from Uganda / Mikael Karlstr�om -- Colonial constructions: historicizing debates on civil society in Africa / William Cunningham Bissell -- Staging politisi: the dialogics of publicity and secrecy in Sierra Leone / Mariane Ferne -- Civil lives: leadership and accomplishment in Botswana / Deborah Durham -- Debating Muslims, disputed practices: struggles for the realization of an alternative moral order in Niger / Adeline Masquelier -- Curl up and dye: civil society and the fashion-minded citizen / Amy Stambach -- IBB = 419: Nigerian democracy and the politics of illusion / Andrew Apter.

ISBN: 0226114139 9780226114132 0226114147 9780226114149

LCCN: 99023280

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Civil society--Africa.
Soci�et�e civile--Afrique.
Civil society.
Politics and government

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Africa--Politics and government.
Afrique--Politique et gouvernement.
Africa.

LC Class. No.: JQ1879 / .C58 1999