The Social Life of Connectivity in Africa

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction Connectivity and the Postglobal Moment: (Dis)connections and Social Change in Africa....Pages 1-20
Flows and Forces: Once Contained, Now Detained? On Connections Past and Present in Rwanda....Pages 21-44
Research Practice in Connections: Travels and Methods....Pages 45-63
Patriarchy Turned Upside Down: The Flight of the Royal Women of Kom, Cameroon from 1920 to the 1960s....Pages 65-80
Beyond the Last Frontier: Major Trollope and the Eastern Caprivi Zipfel....Pages 81-93
The “Victorian Internet” Reaches Halfway to Cairo: Cape Tanganyika Telegraphs, 1875–1926....Pages 95-121
Marriages and Mobility in Akan Societies: Disconnections and Connections over Time and Space....Pages 123-139
A Ritual Connection: Urban Youth Marrying in the Village in Botswana....Pages 141-159
Connecting Communities and Business: Public-Private Partnerships as the Panacea for Land Reform in Limpopo Province, South Africa....Pages 161-182
Connectivities Compared: Transnational Islamic NGOs in Chad and Senegal....Pages 183-201
Love Therapy: A Brazilian Pentecostal (Dis)connection in Maputo....Pages 203-225
Ajala Travel: Mobility and Connections as Forms of Social Capital in Nigerian Society....Pages 227-241
Connecting “Ourselves”: A Dogon Ethnic Association and the Impact of Connectivity....Pages 243-264
Intimate Strangers: Connecting Fiction and Ethnography....Pages 265-287
Back Matter....Pages 289-295