One / Introduction: Untimely Africa?
Brian Goldstone and Juan Obarrio
Part I: Rethinking Crisis
Two / Africa Otherwise
Janet Roitman
Three / The Form of Crisis and the Affect of Modernization
Brian Larkin
Four / The Productivity of Crisis: Aid, Time, and Medicine in Mozambique
Ramah McKay
Part II: Emergent Economies
Five / Money in the Future of Africans
Jane I. Guyer
Six / Forensics of Capital
Michael Ralph
Seven / Brokering Revolution: Imagining Future War on the West African Borderlands
Danny Hoffman
Eight / Hedging the Future
Charles Piot
Nine / Entangled Postcolonial Futures: Malagasy Marriage Migrants and Provincial Frenchmen
Jennifer Cole
Part III: Urban Spaces and Local Futures
Ten / Rough Towns: Mobilizing Uncertainty in Kinshasa
AbdouMaliq Simone
Eleven / Local Futures, the Future of the Local: Urban Living in a Central African Metropolis
Filip De Boeck
Twelve / Changing Mobilities, Shifting Futures
Peter Geschiere and Antoine Socpa
Thirteen / Time and Again: Locality as Future Anterior in Mozambique
Juan Obarrio
Part IV: Possibilities
Fourteen / Getting Ahead When We’re Behind: Time, Potential, and Value in Urban Tanzania
Brad Weiss
Fifteen / Africa in Theory
Achille Mbembe
Acknowledgments
References
List of Contributors
Index