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Author Grant, Andrea Mariko

Title Anxiety in and about Africa Multidisciplinary Perspectives and Approaches
Published Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (257 p.)
Series Cambridge Centre of African Studies Series
Cambridge Centre of African Studies series.
Contents Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: States of Anxiety in Africa -- Part 1: Anxious Spaces -- 1: Misapprehensions: Outlaws and Anxiety in Southern Africa's Archaeological Past -- 2: Between the Anxiogenic and the Soothing:Settlers' Engagements with Africans in Dance in Colonial Africa, 1920s-30s -- 3: Epidemics and Anxiety in Saint-Louis-du-Sénégal, from the Mid-Nineteenth to the Early Twentieth Century -- Part 2: Unsettling Narratives -- 4: Anxiety over Masculinity: Gendered and Sexual Struggles in Mwanga II's Buganda, 1884-97
5: No End to the Trouble: Decolonization Anxieties and the Evacuation of White Settlers from Kenya, 1963-64 -- 6: Competing Development "Visions"? State Anxieties and Church Closures in Rwanda -- Part 3: Alternative Temporalities -- 7: "Right Now, I Don't Know What the Future Might Bring": Hope, Anxiety, and Despair in the Burundian Crisis -- 8: "Obuganda Buladde": Power, Anxiety, and Calm in Postcolonial Buganda -- Contributors -- Index
Summary This 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
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Anxiety -- Africa -- Congresses
Anxiety
Africa
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Pringle, Yolana
ISBN 9780821447284
0821447289