Katrien Pype is Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at KU Leuven University and Honorary Research Fellow at the Department of African Studies and Anthropology at the University of Birmingham. Omolade Adunbi is Professor of Anthropology and Afroamerican and African Studies and the Director of the African Studies Center at the University of Michigan. Michael M. J. Fischer is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

• BiographiesList of IllustrationsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Post-Global City Formations: Technology and Africa’s Urban Futures Omolade Adunbi, Katrien Pype, and Michael M.J. FischerChapter 1: The Post-Global City. South-South Geographies and Political Affects in Kinshasa’s Emerging Tech SceneKatrien PypeChapter 2: Technologies of Dream Life and the Life of Dreams in Afrodystopia Joseph Tonda, translated by Katrien PypeChapter 3. Inga as Enclave: The (Dis)comfort of Being Serious MenBarbara CarbonChapter 4: Enchanting Urban Futures through Geothermal Explorations in Nakuru, KenyaNick RahierChapter 5: Dreaming About X-Rays in Kikwit: Visibility, Medical Technology, and Fracture Care in an Intermediate Congolese CityTrisha PhippardChapter 6: The “Bend-Skin”: A Connector in and Co-Constructor of Mbouda; or, How Post-Global Flows Enable Urban MobilityVivien M. Meli, translated by Victoria Bernal and Katrien PypeChapter 7 Technicity and Co-Citizenship: Campus Connectivity in Tanzania Koen Stroeken and Mohamed GhasiaChapter 8: Digital Technology and Urban Entrepreneurship: Gendered Tacticsof Online Entrepreneurship in and from Prewar KhartoumGriet Steel Chapter 9. The Oil Cities: Urbanity, Engineers, and Innovators in the Construction of Refineries in NigeriaOmolade AdunbiBibliographyIndex

Katrien Pype is Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at KU Leuven University and Honorary Research Fellow at the Department of African Studies and Anthropology at the University of Birmingham. Omolade Adunbi is Professor of Anthropology and Afroamerican and African Studies and the Director of the African Studies Center at the University of Michigan. Michael M. J. Fischer is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

• BiographiesList of IllustrationsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Post-Global City Formations: Technology and Africa’s Urban Futures Omolade Adunbi, Katrien Pype, and Michael M.J. FischerChapter 1: The Post-Global City. South-South Geographies and Political Affects in Kinshasa’s Emerging Tech SceneKatrien PypeChapter 2: Technologies of Dream Life and the Life of Dreams in Afrodystopia Joseph Tonda, translated by Katrien PypeChapter 3. Inga as Enclave: The (Dis)comfort of Being Serious MenBarbara CarbonChapter 4: Enchanting Urban Futures through Geothermal Explorations in Nakuru, KenyaNick RahierChapter 5: Dreaming About X-Rays in Kikwit: Visibility, Medical Technology, and Fracture Care in an Intermediate Congolese CityTrisha PhippardChapter 6: The “Bend-Skin”: A Connector in and Co-Constructor of Mbouda; or, How Post-Global Flows Enable Urban MobilityVivien M. Meli, translated by Victoria Bernal and Katrien PypeChapter 7 Technicity and Co-Citizenship: Campus Connectivity in Tanzania Koen Stroeken and Mohamed GhasiaChapter 8: Digital Technology and Urban Entrepreneurship: Gendered Tacticsof Online Entrepreneurship in and from Prewar KhartoumGriet Steel Chapter 9. The Oil Cities: Urbanity, Engineers, and Innovators in the Construction of Refineries in NigeriaOmolade AdunbiBibliographyIndex

Katrien Pype is Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at KU Leuven University and Honorary Research Fellow at the Department of African Studies and Anthropology at the University of Birmingham. Omolade Adunbi is Professor of Anthropology and Afroamerican and African Studies and the Director of the African Studies Center at the University of Michigan. Michael M. J. Fischer is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

• BiographiesList of IllustrationsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Post-Global City Formations: Technology and Africa’s Urban Futures Omolade Adunbi, Katrien Pype, and Michael M.J. FischerChapter 1: The Post-Global City. South-South Geographies and Political Affects in Kinshasa’s Emerging Tech SceneKatrien PypeChapter 2: Technologies of Dream Life and the Life of Dreams in Afrodystopia Joseph Tonda, translated by Katrien PypeChapter 3. Inga as Enclave: The (Dis)comfort of Being Serious MenBarbara CarbonChapter 4: Enchanting Urban Futures through Geothermal Explorations in Nakuru, KenyaNick RahierChapter 5: Dreaming About X-Rays in Kikwit: Visibility, Medical Technology, and Fracture Care in an Intermediate Congolese CityTrisha PhippardChapter 6: The “Bend-Skin”: A Connector in and Co-Constructor of Mbouda; or, How Post-Global Flows Enable Urban MobilityVivien M. Meli, translated by Victoria Bernal and Katrien PypeChapter 7 Technicity and Co-Citizenship: Campus Connectivity in Tanzania Koen Stroeken and Mohamed GhasiaChapter 8: Digital Technology and Urban Entrepreneurship: Gendered Tacticsof Online Entrepreneurship in and from Prewar KhartoumGriet Steel Chapter 9. The Oil Cities: Urbanity, Engineers, and Innovators in the Construction of Refineries in NigeriaOmolade AdunbiBibliographyIndex