Nostalgia for the Future: West Africa after the Cold War

by Charles Piot

Book Overview

Since the end of the cold war, Africa has seen a dramatic rise in new political and religious phenomena, including an eviscerated privatized state, neoliberal NGOs, Pentecostalism, a resurgence in accusations of witchcraft, a culture of scamming and fraud, and, in some countries, a nearly universal wish to emigrate. Drawing on fieldwork in Togo, Charles Piot suggests that a new biopolitics after state sovereignty is remaking the face of one of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226669653
• ISBN13: 9780226669656
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"