Introduction : working the system in boomtown Africa -- 2002, year zero : the foundations of the new Angola -- Sambizanga : the affects of place and memory -- Angolanidade : mediating urbanity through race and class -- Cunhas : situational kinship and everyday authority -- A culture of immediatism : co-optation and complicity -- Against the system, within the system : the parameters of the political
Summary
Working the System offers key insights into the politics of the everyday in twenty-first-century dominant party and neo-authoritarian regimes in Africa and elsewhere. Detailing the many ways ordinary Angolans fashion their relationships with the ..
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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In English
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