Markku Hokkanen is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of OuluMusa Sadock is Lecturer in History at the University of Dar es SalaamPhilip J. Havik is Senior Researcher at the Centre for Global Health and Tropical Medicine, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Universidade NOVA de LisboaBenson A. Mulemi is Research Associate at the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria and Associate Professor of Anthropology

• Introduction: Healers and politics in African history – Markku Hokkanen, Philip J. Havik, Benson Mulemi and Musa SadockPart I: Healers, politics and crises in the Great Lakes1 Healers, politics and power struggles in the Great Lakes Region, c. 900-1900 — Jan Kuhanen2 The micropolitics of healing: White Fathers and healers in the Great Lakes region, c. 1880-1910 — Emma Wild-WoodPart II: Therapeutics, harming and fortune: healers in war and peace3 Healers and politics in Malawi: Healing, harming and luck — Harvey Banda and Markku Hokkanen4 Healing, divination, crises and conflict: Political entanglements in Guinea-Bissau — Philip J. HavikPart III: Healers, biomedicine and the state5 The politics of healers’ associations in Ghana since the 1930s: A historical analysis — Samuel Adu-Gyamfi6 Confronting HIV and AIDS in Tanzania: 1980s–2005 — Musa Sadock7 An interplay between healers and public health providers in contemporary Malawi – Msenga Mulungu and Harvey BandaPart IV: Economies of ecology and well-being in contemporary Africa8 Indigenous healers and forests in Ghana: Preserving Mfantse’s cultural heritage through roots and herbs — Samuel Adu-Gyamfi and Helena Osei-Egyir9 Pastoralist healers in East Africa: Marginalisation, risks and sustainability – Benson MulemiEpilogue: A vibrant, mutating social category — Nancy Rose Hunt

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