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Book SynopsisThis addition to the Cambridge Centre of African Studies Series presents multidisciplinary essays that demonstrate how individual and collective anxieties can unsettle dominant historical narratives, shape contemporary discourse, and appear across material culture.
Trade Review“Using ‘anxiety’ as the organizing rubric, this collective examination of affect, emotion, and concern across Africa, geographically and temporally, delves into fascinating disciplinary endeavors and disparate approaches. Although ‘anxiety’ is deliberately not defined strictly by the editors, and the contributors employ their own, different takes on what is anxiety inducing (and what is inferred by being anxiety provoking), this volume contains valuable essays about historical periods or behavioral thresholds that may be labeled as sources of anxiety…. Recommended.” * Choice *
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I n t roduct ion
States of Anxiety in Africa
Perspectives, Approaches, and Potential
Yola na Pringle and Andrea Mariko Grant
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PART I: Anxious Spaces
One: Misapprehensions. Outlaws and Anxiety in Southern Africa’s Archaeological Past (Rach el King)
Two: Between the Anxiogenic and the Soothing. Settlers’ Engagements with Africans in Dance in Colonial Africa, 1920s–30s (Cécile Feza Bushidi)
Three: Epidemics and Anxiety in Saint-Louis-du-Sénégal, from the Mid-Nineteenth to the Early Twentieth Century (Kalala Ngala mulume)
Part II: Unsettling Na rratives
Four: Anxiety over Masculinity. Gendered and Sexual Struggles in Mwanga II’s Buganda, 1884–97 (Naka nyike B. Musisi)
Five: No End to the Trouble. Decolonization Anxieties and the Evacuation of White Settlers from Kenya, 1963–64 (Will Jacks on and Harry Firth-Jones)
Six: Competing Development “Visions”? State Anxieties and Church Closures in Rwanda (Andrea Mariko Grant)
Part III: Alternative Temporalities
Seven: “Right Now, I Don’t Know What the Future Might Bring”. Hope, Anxiety, and Despair in the Burundian Crisis (Simon Turner)
Eight: “Obuganda Buladde". Power, Anxiety, and Calm in Postcolonial Buganda (Jonathon L. Earle)
Contributors
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