Nostalgia for the Future: West Africa after the Cold War

by Charles Piot

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Since the end of the cold war, Africa has seen a dramatic rise in new political and religious phenomena, including an eviscerated privatized state, neoliberal NGOs, Pentecostalism, a resurgence in accusations of witchcraft, a culture of scamming and fraud, and, in some countries, a nearly universal wish to emigrate. Drawing on fieldwork in Togo, Charles Piot suggests that a new biopolitics after state sovereignty is remaking the face of one of...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0226669653

ISBN13:9780226669656

Release Date:July 2010

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:216 Pages

Weight:0.70 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Related Subjects

Cultural History Human Geography Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Social Science Social Sciences

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