TY - BOOK AU - Comaroff,J.L. AU - Comaroff,Jean TI - Civil society and the political imagination in Africa: critical perspectives SN - 0226114139 AV - JQ1879 .C58 1999 PY - 1999/// CY - Chicago (USA) PB - University of Chicago Press KW - Civil society KW - Africa KW - Soci�et�e civile KW - Afrique KW - fast KW - Politics and government KW - Politique et gouvernement N1 - 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 ER -