Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: Theorizing Social Im/mobilities in Africa 1
4. Chapter 1 Inequality from Up Close: Qur’anic Students in Northern Nigeria Working as Domestics 27
5. Chapter 2 ‘Born Free to Aspire’? An Ethnographic Study of Rural Youths’ Aspirations in Post-Apartheid South Africa 49
6. Chapter 3 Great Expectations and Uncertain Futures: Education and Social Im/mobility in Niamey, Niger 70
7. Chapter 4 ‘Precarious Prosperity’? Social Im/mobilities among Young Entrepreneurs in Kampala 91
8. Chapter 5 ‘Here Men Are Becoming Women and Women Men’ Gender, Class and Space in Maputo, Mozambique 110
9. Chapter 6 The Dynamics of Inequality in the Congolese Copperbelt: A Discussion of Bourdieu’s Theory of Social Space 132
10. Chapter 7 Crisis, Work and the Meanings of Mobility on the Zimbabwean-South African Border 155
11. Chapter 8 Domestic Dramas: Class, Taste and Home Decoration in Buea, Cameroon 178
12. Conclusion: A Multidimensional Approach to Social Positionality in Africa 199
13. Appendices to Chapter 4
14. Appendix 1 Sample Characteristics 213
15. Appendix 2 Summary of Entrepreneurs’ Directions of Social Mobility 222
16. Index 225