Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. One. Introduction: Untimely Africa? 1
4. Part One. Rethinking Crisis
5. Two. Africa Otherwise 23
6. Three. The Form of Crisis and the Affect of Modernization 39
7. Four. The Productivity of Crisis: Aid, Time, and Medicine in Mozambique 51
8. Part Two. Emergent Economies
9. Five. Money in the Future of Africans 63
10. Six. Forensics of Capital 77
11. Seven. Brokering Revolution: Imagining Future War on the West African Borderlands 95
12. Eight. Hedging the Future 104
13. Nine. Entangled Postcolonial Futures: Malagasy Marriage Migrants and Provincial Frenchmen 117
14. Part Three. Urban Spaces and Local Futures
15. Ten. Rough Towns: Mobilizing Uncertainty in Kinshasa 139
16. Eleven. Local Futures, the Future of the Local: Urban Living in a Central African Metropolis 151
17. Twelve. Changing Mobilities, Shifting Futures 167
18. Thirteen. Time and Again: Locality as Future Anterior in Mozambique 181
19. Part Four. Possibilities
20. Fourteen. Getting Ahead When We’re Behind: Time, Potential, and Value in Urban Tanzania 199
21. Fifteen. Africa in Theory 211
22. Acknowledgments 231
23. References 233
24. Contributors 253
25. Index 259