Postcolonial identities in Africa

Multiple identities, plural arenas / Richard Werbner -- The African crisis : context and interpretation / Patrick Chabal -- A lost generation? Youth identity and state decay in West Africa / Donal B. Cruise O'Brien -- Postcolonialism, power and identity : local and global perspectives from Zaire / Filip De Boeck -- Between God and Kamuzu : the transition to multi-party politics in central Malawi / Harri Englund -- The potentials of boundaries in South Africa : steps toward a theory of the social edge / Robert Thornton -- 'Producing' respect : the'proper woman' in postcolonial Kampala / Jessica A. Ogden -- Witchcraft, violence and identity : different trajectories in postcolonial Cameroon / Cyprian Fisiy and Peter Geschiere -- Identity, alterity and ambiguity in a Nigerian community : competing definitions of 'true' Islam / Adeline Masquelier -- Contested authorities and the politics of perception : deconstructing the study of religion inAfrica / Rijk van Dijk and Peter Pels -- Postscript : Colonial and post