This book is about African ethnographic examples of processes of bottom-up development that combine the authority of individual leaders with the more dispersed formations of trust-based social networks that control and mobilize vast sums of money. While these processes may involve the gradual ascendancy of new "middle class" or bourgeois class formations, they also sustain much wider forms of local and regional development that can potentially transform national-scale politics and contribute to building more peaceful and just societies. The central concern of my scholarly work has been to...
This book is about African ethnographic examples of processes of bottom-up development that combine the authority of individual leaders with the more ...