Mirjam de Bruijn, Ph.D. (1995) Utrecht University, is an Anthropologist at the African Studies Centre in Leiden. Her work on nomadism, children and youth, mobility, (in)security, poverty, and social and economic in- and exclusion has an interdisciplinary character. She has done extensive fieldwork in Chad and Mali. Rijk van Dijk, Ph.D. (1992) Utrecht University, is an anthropologist at the African Studies Centre where he researches the rise of new religious movements in Africa, particularly Pentecostalism, in relation to globalization, transnational connections and youth. He has published widely on the emergence of Pentecostal movements in Malawi, Ghana and, more recently, Botswana.Jan-Bart Gewald, Ph.D. (1996) University of Leiden, is a historian at the African Studies Centre, Leiden. He has published extensively on aspects of African history and is currently focusing on the history of the relationship between people and technology in Africa.

• Social and Historical Trajectories of Agency in Africa: An IntroductionRijk van Dijk, Mirjam de Bruijn & Jan-Bart GewaldManchester as the Birth Place of Modern Agency Research: The Manchester School Explained from the Perspective of Evans-Pritchard’s Book The NuerWim van BinsbergenDreams and Agency during Angola’s War of IndependenceInge BrinkmanChief Hosea Kutako: A Herero Royal and Namibian Nationalist’s Life against Confinement 1870–1970Jan-Bart GewaldAgency in Kapsiki Religion: A Comparative ApproachWouter van BeekLes Enveloppes pour Papa Daniel: La Transformation des Relations Domestiques dans les Ménages des Congolais de la DiasporaJulie NdayaFrom Individual Act to Social Agency in San Trance RitualsThomas WidlokThe Dynamics of Families, their Work and Provisioning Strategies in the Changing Economies in the Urban Townships of Bulawayo, ZimbabweOtrude N. MoyoImages of Africa: Agency and Nature Conservation in South AfricaMalcolm Draper, Marja Spierenburg & Harry WelsSolitary Births in Téra, Niger: A Local Quest for SafetyGertie JanssenAgency in and from the Margins: Street Children and Youth in N’djaména, ChadMirjam de BruijnNegotiating the Memory of Fulbe Hierarchy among Mobile Elite WomenLotte PelckmansThe Safe and Suffering Body in Transnational Ghanaian Pentecostalism; Towards an Anthropology of Vulnerable AgencyRijk van Dijk

Mirjam de Bruijn, Ph.D. (1995) Utrecht University, is an Anthropologist at the African Studies Centre in Leiden. Her work on nomadism, children and youth, mobility, (in)security, poverty, and social and economic in- and exclusion has an interdisciplinary character. She has done extensive fieldwork in Chad and Mali. Rijk van Dijk, Ph.D. (1992) Utrecht University, is an anthropologist at the African Studies Centre where he researches the rise of new religious movements in Africa, particularly Pentecostalism, in relation to globalization, transnational connections and youth. He has published widely on the emergence of Pentecostal movements in Malawi, Ghana and, more recently, Botswana.Jan-Bart Gewald, Ph.D. (1996) University of Leiden, is a historian at the African Studies Centre, Leiden. He has published extensively on aspects of African history and is currently focusing on the history of the relationship between people and technology in Africa.

• Social and Historical Trajectories of Agency in Africa: An IntroductionRijk van Dijk, Mirjam de Bruijn & Jan-Bart GewaldManchester as the Birth Place of Modern Agency Research: The Manchester School Explained from the Perspective of Evans-Pritchard’s Book The NuerWim van BinsbergenDreams and Agency during Angola’s War of IndependenceInge BrinkmanChief Hosea Kutako: A Herero Royal and Namibian Nationalist’s Life against Confinement 1870–1970Jan-Bart GewaldAgency in Kapsiki Religion: A Comparative ApproachWouter van BeekLes Enveloppes pour Papa Daniel: La Transformation des Relations Domestiques dans les Ménages des Congolais de la DiasporaJulie NdayaFrom Individual Act to Social Agency in San Trance RitualsThomas WidlokThe Dynamics of Families, their Work and Provisioning Strategies in the Changing Economies in the Urban Townships of Bulawayo, ZimbabweOtrude N. MoyoImages of Africa: Agency and Nature Conservation in South AfricaMalcolm Draper, Marja Spierenburg & Harry WelsSolitary Births in Téra, Niger: A Local Quest for SafetyGertie JanssenAgency in and from the Margins: Street Children and Youth in N’djaména, ChadMirjam de BruijnNegotiating the Memory of Fulbe Hierarchy among Mobile Elite WomenLotte PelckmansThe Safe and Suffering Body in Transnational Ghanaian Pentecostalism; Towards an Anthropology of Vulnerable AgencyRijk van Dijk

Mirjam de Bruijn, Ph.D. (1995) Utrecht University, is an Anthropologist at the African Studies Centre in Leiden. Her work on nomadism, children and youth, mobility, (in)security, poverty, and social and economic in- and exclusion has an interdisciplinary character. She has done extensive fieldwork in Chad and Mali. Rijk van Dijk, Ph.D. (1992) Utrecht University, is an anthropologist at the African Studies Centre where he researches the rise of new religious movements in Africa, particularly Pentecostalism, in relation to globalization, transnational connections and youth. He has published widely on the emergence of Pentecostal movements in Malawi, Ghana and, more recently, Botswana.Jan-Bart Gewald, Ph.D. (1996) University of Leiden, is a historian at the African Studies Centre, Leiden. He has published extensively on aspects of African history and is currently focusing on the history of the relationship between people and technology in Africa.

• Social and Historical Trajectories of Agency in Africa: An IntroductionRijk van Dijk, Mirjam de Bruijn & Jan-Bart GewaldManchester as the Birth Place of Modern Agency Research: The Manchester School Explained from the Perspective of Evans-Pritchard’s Book The NuerWim van BinsbergenDreams and Agency during Angola’s War of IndependenceInge BrinkmanChief Hosea Kutako: A Herero Royal and Namibian Nationalist’s Life against Confinement 1870–1970Jan-Bart GewaldAgency in Kapsiki Religion: A Comparative ApproachWouter van BeekLes Enveloppes pour Papa Daniel: La Transformation des Relations Domestiques dans les Ménages des Congolais de la DiasporaJulie NdayaFrom Individual Act to Social Agency in San Trance RitualsThomas WidlokThe Dynamics of Families, their Work and Provisioning Strategies in the Changing Economies in the Urban Townships of Bulawayo, ZimbabweOtrude N. MoyoImages of Africa: Agency and Nature Conservation in South AfricaMalcolm Draper, Marja Spierenburg & Harry WelsSolitary Births in Téra, Niger: A Local Quest for SafetyGertie JanssenAgency in and from the Margins: Street Children and Youth in N’djaména, ChadMirjam de BruijnNegotiating the Memory of Fulbe Hierarchy among Mobile Elite WomenLotte PelckmansThe Safe and Suffering Body in Transnational Ghanaian Pentecostalism; Towards an Anthropology of Vulnerable AgencyRijk van Dijk