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Contents: S. A. Nageeb, Stretching the horizon: a gender-based perspective on everyday life and practices in the Islamic sub-culture of Sudan; U. G nther & I. Niehaus, Islam in South Africa: The Muslims' contribution in the struggle against apartheid and the process of democratisation; A. Piga, A Neo-traditionalist Islamic associations and the Islamist press in contemporary Senegal; M. Singleton, Conversion to Islam in 19th century Tanzania as seen by a native Christian; A. N'Gaide, Islam, charismatic preachers and religious orders in high colonial Casamance; M. Pesek, Sulayman b. Nasr...

States at Work explores the mundane practices of state-making in Africa by focussing on the daily functioning of public services and the practices of civil servants. Adopting mainly an ethnographic approach as a basis for theorizing, the authors deal with topics including: bureaucratic cultures and practical norms, operational routines in offices, career patterns and modes of appointment; how bureaucrats themselves perceive and deliver goods and services and interact with service users; the accumulation of public administration reforms and how the different bureaucratic corps react to...