Postcolonial Identities in Africa

* Introduction - Richard Werbner * Part 1: Power, Crisis and Contested Identities * 1. The African Crisis: Context and Interpretation - Patrick Chabal * 2. Postcolonialism, Power and Identity: Local and Global Perspectives from Zaire - Filip De Boeck * 3. Between God and Kamuzu: The Transition to Multi-Party Politics in Central Malawi - Harri Englund * 4. The Potential Boundaries: Steps Toward a Theory of the Social Edge - Robert Thornton * Part 2: Gender and Generation in Conflict * 5. A Lost Generation? Youth Identity and State Decay in West Africa - Donal Cruise O'Brien * 6. AIDS, Biomedicine, and the Re-invention of Witchfinding: Death and Cosmic Defence in a Zambian Village - Bawa Yamba * 7. Producing Respect: The 'Proper Women' in Postcolonial Kampala - Jessica Ogden * Part 3: Religion, Dominance and Deconstruction * 8. Contested Authorities and Politics of Perception: Deconstructing the Study of Religion in Africa - Rijk van Dijk and Peter Pels * 9. Witchcraft, Violence and Identity: Different Trajectories in Postcolonial Cameroon - Cyprian Fisiy and Peter Geschiere * 10. Identity, Alterity and Ambiguity in a Nigerian Community: Competing Definitions of True Islam - Adeline Masquelier * Conclusion - Terence Ranger