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

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