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This addition to the Cambridge Centre of African Studies Series presents multidisciplinary essays that demonstrate how individual and collective anxieties can unsettle dominant historical narratives, shape contemporary discourse, and appear across material culture.
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I n t roduct ion
States of Anxiety in Africa
Perspectives, Approaches, and Potential
Yola na Pringle and Andrea Mariko Grant
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PART I: Anxious Spaces
One: Misapprehensions. Outlaws and Anxiety in Southern Africa’s Archaeological Past (Rach el King)
Two: Between the Anxiogenic and the Soothing. Settlers’ Engagements with Africans in Dance in Colonial Africa, 1920s–30s (Cécile Feza Bushidi)
Three: Epidemics and Anxiety in Saint-Louis-du-Sénégal, from the Mid-Nineteenth to the Early Twentieth Century (Kalala Ngala mulume)
Part II: Unsettling Na rratives
Four: Anxiety over Masculinity. Gendered and Sexual Struggles in Mwanga II’s Buganda, 1884–97 (Naka nyike B. Musisi)
Five: No End to the Trouble. Decolonization Anxieties and the Evacuation of White Settlers from Kenya, 1963–64 (Will Jacks on and Harry Firth-Jones)
Six: Competing Development “Visions”? State Anxieties and Church Closures in Rwanda (Andrea Mariko Grant)
Part III: Alternative Temporalities
Seven: “Right Now, I Don’t Know What the Future Might Bring”. Hope, Anxiety, and Despair in the Burundian Crisis (Simon Turner)
Eight: “Obuganda Buladde". Power, Anxiety, and Calm in Postcolonial Buganda (Jonathon L. Earle)
Contributors
Index
About the author
Andrea Mariko Grant is a lecturer in social anthropology at the University of Cambridge. Her work explores popular culture and religious change in Rwanda, as well as memory and the creation of postgenocide archives. Her work has appeared in
Africa: The Journal of the International African Institute,
Journal of Religion in Africa, and
Journal of Eastern African Studies, among others.
Yolana Pringle is senior lecturer in the history of medicine at the University of Roehampton. Her research interests include the history of psychiatry and mental health, humanitarianism, and global health, with a regional focus on East Africa. Her first book,
Psychiatry and Decolonisation in Uganda, was published in 2019. She is currently working on a history of mental health care in contexts of political violence in Africa.
Summary
This addition to the Cambridge Centre of African Studies Series presents multidisciplinary essays that demonstrate how individual and collective anxieties can unsettle dominant historical narratives, shape contemporary discourse, and appear across material culture.
