Through the eyes of northern Nigerian Qur'anic students, this book explores what it truly means to be young, poor, and Muslim.

Offers an incisive biography of the life and work of South Africa's foremost social anthropologist, Monica Hunter Wilson, between the 1920s and 1960s.

A rich ethnographic account of young West African fisherfolk navigating a precarious social and economic environment shaped by ecological crisis, war, and secrecy.

This book studies a Yoruba community in the hinterland of Ibadan over twenty years.

Examines how Salafism, a globally influential Muslim movement, is reshaping religious authority in Nigeria, Africa's most populous country.

A vivid ethnographic study of cattle traders, truckers, public contractors and NGO actors' everyday encounters with state bureaucracies in Ngaoundere, Cameroon.

An examination of an African middle class, demonstrating how it is both bound to the state and alienated from it.

Focusing on Malawi, Johnson proposes a shift in emphasis to gender justice as an alternative to human and women's rights.