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Wale Adebanwi is Assistant Professor of African-American and African Studies at the University of California, Davis.
Ebenezer Obadare is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Kansas.
Acknowledgments | p. ix |
Notes on Contributors | p. xi |
Introduction: Excess and Abjection in the Study of the African State | p. 1 |
Deconstructing "Oluwole": Political Economy at the Margins of the State | p. 29 |
The Spatial Economy of Abjection: The Evacuation of Maroko Slum in Nigeria | p. 55 |
"Rotten English": Excremental Politics and Literary Witnessing | p. 79 |
The Perils of Protest: State Repression and Student Mobilization in Nigeria | p. 99 |
Vocalizing Rage: Deconstructing the Language of Antistate Forces | p. 123 |
The Subaltern Encounters the State: OPC-State Relations 1999-2003 | p. 139 |
The State as Undertaker: Power and Insurgent Media in Nigeria | p. 155 |
From Corporatist Power to Abjection: Labor and State Control in Nigeria | p. 177 |
When the State Kills: Political Assassinations in Abacha's Nigeria | p. 199 |
The Sharia Challenge: Revisiting the Travails of the Secular State | p. 217 |
Koma: A Glimpse of Life at the Edges of the State | p. 243 |
Index | p. 255 |
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