African Futures in the Making

DETLEF MÜLLER-MAHN is Professor of Development Geography, University of Bonn. He served as the spokesperson of the Collaborative Research Center (CRC-TRR 228) "Future Rural Africa" 2018-2021. His research focuses on the political ecology of land use change and rural development in East Africa and the Middle East. Eric Kioko). MICHAEL BOLLIG is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Cologne. ASTRID MATEJCEK is a lecturer and research assistant in the Cultural Geography research group at the Institute of Geography at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany. Carolin Hulke is a research associate at the University of Cologne, Institute of Geography and associate to the multi-disciplinary research project "Future Rural Africa" (CRC-TRR228/1). She is conducting her PhD research on southern African agricultural regional value chains, livelihood strategies and rural development. Clemens Greiner is the academic coordinator of the Global South Studies Center (GSSC). His current research focuses on rural change, political ecology, translocality, and (energy) infrastructures in Kenya. His regional specialization is on Eastern and Southern Africa. DETLEF MÜLLER-MAHN is Professor of Development Geography, University of Bonn. He served as the spokesperson of the Collaborative Research Center (CRC-TRR 228) "Future Rural Africa" 2018-2021. His research focuses on the political ecology of land use change and rural development in East Africa and the Middle East. Eric Kioko). DOROTHEA E. SCHULZ is Professor & Department Chair, Department of Social & Cultural Anthropology, University of Münster, Germany. Eric M. Kioko is a lecturer at Kenyatta University in the Department of Environmental Studies and Community Development where his research and teaching focuses on the dynamics of human-environment relations. His publications include Cooperation in the midst of conflict (with M. Gravesen, 2019) and Appeasing the land (with W. Okumu, 2018). HAUKE-PETER VEHRS is a Post-doctoral researcher in the project 'Future Rural Africa: Future-Making and Social Ecological Transformation' at the University of Cologne. Javier Revilla Diez holds a Chair in Human Geography at the Institute of Geography and is associated to the Global South Study Center at the University of Cologne. He participates in the collaborative research center 'Future Rural Africa: Future-making and social-ecological transformation'. Linus Kalvelage is a research associate at the Institute of Geography, University of Cologne. A member of the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC 228) 'Future Rural Africa: Future-making and social-ecological transformation', his research interests include tourism GPNs, nature conservation and regional development in Southern Africa. MICHAEL BOLLIG is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Cologne. SABELO J. NDLOVU-GATSHENI is a Professor of History at the University of Calgary, Alberta.

• Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: Future-making and Social-ecological Transformation in Rural AfricaDetlef Müller-Mahn and Michael BolligPart 1: Bringing Future-Making into Perspective - African Perspectives and the Decolonial Turn1 Black/African Imaginations of the FutureSabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni2 Conceptual Decolonization in African Universities: An Imperative for Shaping African FuturesMartin AjeiPart Two: Technologies, imaginaries, and practices of future-making in rural Africa3 'In technology we trust': Digital Visions and their Implications for Agricultural Futures in Eastern AfricaAstrid Matejcek, Rupert Neuhöfer, Julian Rochlitz, and Julia Verne4 Green Futures and National Planning: Rhetoric and Reality in Rural East AfricaEric M. Kioko, Detlef Müller-Mahn, and Maxmillian J. Chuhila5 The Growth-Corridor Vision and its Realities - Regional Economic Impacts in Namibia and TanzaniaJavier Revilla Diez, Peter Dannenberg, Carolin Hulke, Linus Kalvelage, Gideon Tups, and Richard Mbunda6 The Making of an Energy Resource Periphery? Scalar Politics, Frontier Dynamics, and Future-Making in Northern KenyaClemens Greiner, Britta Klagge, Kennedy Mkutu, and Frankline Ndi7 Africa, The Conservation Continent? Future-Making and the Globalization of Wildlife ProtectionHauke-Peter Vehrs and Michael BolligPart Three For prayer, profit, and persistence - aspirations and hope in the future-making in rural Africa8 Gendered African Futures and Extreme Climate Events in Turkana, KenyaMaggie Opondo, Gilbert Ouma, Anne Oketch, and Dennis Ong'ech9 Reimagining Africa's Rural Futures in the Age of Mobile MoneyPrince K Guma10'Joining the church' as a Form of Future-making? Il Chamus Christians' Futural Orientations in Baringo County, Northern KenyaDorothea Schulz, Uroš Kovač11 The Politics of Anticipation in East Africa's RangelandsIan Scoones, Tahira Shariff Mohamed, and Masresha TayeEpilogue: African Futures and the Way ForwardDetlef Müller-Mahn and Michael BolligIndex