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Joseph Tonda, the social sciences and the vortex of city life in Africa

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JosephTonda, The Modern Sovereign: the body of power in Central Africa (Congo and Gabon). Translated by C. Turner. Calcutta: Seagull Books (pb US$45/£35 – 978 08 5742 688 8). 2021, 370 pp. [French original: Le Souverain moderne: le corps du pouvoir en Afrique centrale (Congo, Gabon). Paris: Karthala, 2005]
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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 January 2022

Florence Bernault  and
Peter Geschiere
Florence Bernault
Affiliation:
Centre d’Histoire de Sciences Po, Paris, Franceflorence.bernault@sciencespo.fr
Peter Geschiere
Affiliation:
University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the NetherlandsP.L.Geschiere@uva.nl
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Africa , Volume 92 , Issue 1 , January 2022 , pp. 152 - 160
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References

1 J. Tonda (2007) ‘Entre communautarisme et individualisme: la “tuée tuée”, une figure-miroir de la déparentélisation au Gabon’, Sociologie et Sociétés 39 (2): 79–99.

2 G. Balandier (1951) ‘La situation coloniale: approche théorique’, Cahiers Internationaux de Sociologie 11: 44–79.

3 J. Comaroff and J. L. Comaroff (2012) Theory from the South: or, how Euro-America is evolving toward Africa. London: Routledge.

4 DVD stands for dos et ventre dehors (back and belly outside) and VCD stands for ventre et cul dehors (belly and ass outside).

5 Nibolek is an abbreviation of the names of three regions in southern Congo: Niari, Bouenza and Lékoumou.

6 See F. Bernault and J. Tonda (2009) ‘Le Gabon: une dystopie tropicale’, Politique Africaine 115: 7–26.

7 Of course, the ‘night husband’ has parallels in many other African contexts. On Ghana, see B. Meyer (2015) Sensational Movies: video, vision and Christianity in Ghana. Oakland CA: University of California Press.