Fractures and Reconnections: Civic Action and the Redefinition of African Political and Economic Spaces

This book contains original studies on civic action and socio-political behaviour in contemporary Africa, ranging from young entrepreneurship in traditional medicine and confidence trickster practices to (in)formal labour relations and the problems of democratization and electoral authoritarianism. This collective volume thus connects to themes that are predominant in the work of Dr. Piet Konings, a sociologist of development and Africanist who had a distinguished research career at the African Studies Centre in Leiden (1978 - 2008) and made ma ...