Provides an account of murder and politics in Africa, and an historical ethnography of southern Annang communities during the colonial period. This book's narrative leads to events between 1945 and 1948 when the Imperial gaze of police, press and politicia

This collection explores the productive potential of uncertainty for people living in Africa as well as for scholars of Africa. Eight ethnographic case studies from across the continent examine how uncertainty is used to negotiate insecurity, create and conduct relationships, and act as a source for imagining the future.