Producing African Futures

Brad Weiss, Ph.D. (1992) University of Chicago, is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the College of William & Mary (USA) and is currently a Burkhardt Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies at the National Humanities Center. He wrote extensively on Tanzania.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Contentious Futures: Past and Present, Brad Weiss1. Domestic Object(ion)s: The Senegalese Murid Trade Diaspora and the Politics of Marriage Payments, Love, and State Privatization, Beth Anne Buggenhagen2. Neoliberalism, Homosexuality, Africa, the Anglican Church: The World Conference of Anglican Bishops at Lambeth, July 18–August 9, 1998, Neville Hoad3. Muslim Saints in the Age of Neoliberalism, Benjamin F. Soares4. “The Best Tradition Goes On”: Audience Consumption and the Transformation of Popular Theatre in Neoliberal Ghana, Jesse Weaver Shipley5. Ritual Haunts: The Timing of Estrangement in a Post-Apartheid Countryside, Hylton White6. “Real Men Reawaken their Fathers’ Homesteads, The Educated Leave them in Ruins”: The Politics of Domestic Reproduction in Post-Apartheid Rural South Africa, Zolani Ngwane7. Street Dreams: Inhabiting Masculine Fantasy in Neoliberal Tanzania, Brad Weiss8. Poetic Justice: Xhosa Idioms and Moral Breach in Post-Apartheid South Africa, Anne-Maria B. Makhulu9. Of Spirit Possession and Structural Adjustment Programs: Government Downsizing, Education, and Their Enchantments in Neoliberal Kenya, James H. Smith10. “Satan Is an Imitator”: Kenya’s Recent Cosmology of Corruption, Robert BluntNotes on Afromodernity and the Neo World Order: An Afterword, Jean Comaroff and John L. ComaroffContributors Index