African Futures, ,

Year

2022

Publisher

Brill

Language

English

ISBN

978-9-00447-081-1

Link

Last Update

23-Sep-2025

Keywords

Sociology

Description

Africa is doomed. Africa is rising. Africa is bleeding, Africa is thriving. Africa holds the key to the future. The world’s future. No future.

There is indeed no future for Africa. Or better, there is no single future. There are many roads to take, many paths to follow, each of which comes with its own crossroads and junctions, uncertainties, expectations, anxieties, imaginings, anticipations and speculations, determined and undetermined by pasts and presents, by possibilities and constraints, by past futures and by future pasts. One continuing concern, especially in the light of growing inequalities, is whose future is one talking about?...