Textures of Power

Acknowledgements

A Note on the Book’s Cover: Thornton Dial’s ‘History Refused to Die’ (2004)

Introduction
Florence Bernault, Benoît Henriet, Emery Kalema

Part 1. Long-Term Imaginations and Languages of Power

Chapter 1.1. The Power of Motherhood and Wealth: Ugandan Concepts in the Common Era
Rhiannon Stephens

Chapter 1.2. From Hauling to Harrowing : Resilience and Change in Moral Imaginations of ‘Slavery’ in the Southern Lower Congo (700 BCE – ca. 1880s)
Marcos Leitão de Almeida

Chapter 1.3. The Powers of Objects and the Collapse of Lunda (Angola and Western DRC), 1850-1900
David M. Gordon

Chapter 1.4. The Power of Between : Political Power of the Bangando Community, Southeastern Cameroon
Stephanie Rupp, Philippe Ambata, Stephane Molong, Abel Mungoie

Part 2. Weaving and Tearing out Textures of Power in Colonial and Postcolonial Times

Chapter 2.1. A Transgressive Economy : Revolt, Repurposing, and Redistribution in 1931 Belgian Congo
Benoît Henriet

Chapter 2.2. ‘Strange Men Who Call Themselves Chiefs’ : The Practice of Power and Authority Among the Acholi of Northern Uganda
Patrick Otim

Chapter 2.3. The Tension From Within : Soldiers and Administrators Disputing Power in Late Colonial Guinea-Bissau (1961-74)
Pedro Cerdeira

Chapter 2.4. Governing the Living Through the Dead : Necropower in a Post-Disaster Context in Cameroon
Brice Molo

Chapter 2.5. The Out-of-Self Sovereignty of the Dark Continent
Joseph Tonda

Part 3. Spatial Technologies

Chapter 3.1. More Than Meets the Eye : Colonial Violence and Spatial Imaginaries of Power in South-Ubangi, DR Congo
Margot Luyckfasseel

Chapter 3.2. Policing the Colonial City : Urban Planning and the Politics of Order in the Port City of Matadi, DR Congo, 1928-1960
Johan Lagae, Jacob Sabakinu Kivilu (†)

Chapter 3.3. Building Walls, Arranging Rooms : Values and Designs in Prisons of the Belgian Congo, 1908-1960
Valentine Dewulf

Chapter 3.4. Textures of Power in Kinshasa Prison : Regulation by Violence and Mafia-Style Arbitrariness
Sylvie Ayimpam, Jacky Bouju, Michel Bisa Kibul

Part 4. Gender, Sexualities, and Bodily Politics

Chapter 4.1. Engendering Domestic Space : Polygamy, Witchcraft, and Power Dynamic in the Mandara Mountains
Melchisedek Chetima

Chapter 4.2. The Language of Syphilis in Colonial Uganda
Neil Kodesh

Chapter 4.3. Homosexuality, Queer Politics, and the Texture of Power in Cameroon
Basile Ndjio

Chapter 4.4. Congolese Regimes and Lumumba’s Politics of Life
Emery Kalema

Part 5. The Other Side: Mystical and Nocturnal Power

Chapter 5.1. Witchcraft as an Archive : Aquatic Murders, Metamorphosis Forces, and Historical Narratives in the Central African Republic
Andrea Ceriana Mayneri

Chapter 5.2. When ‘Slaves’ are Kept in a Bundle : Reliquary Art, Power and Slavery in Southwestern Gabon and the Republic of Congo
Maxime de Formanoir

Chapter 5.3. Dark Capital and the Power of Containers
Florence Bernault

Chapter 5.4. Beyond Syncretism: The History of Tangled Powers in Congo- Brazzaville
Fred O. Biyela

Chapter 5.5. The Fabric of Conspiracy Narratives: Freemasonry as Anusocratie, Cameroon
Rogers Orock, Peter Geschiere

Part 6. Connectivities of Power

Chapter 6.1. The Musical Afterlives of the Kongo Kingdom : Music and Power Between Cuba and Central Africa in the Twentieth Century
Charlotte Grabli

Chapter 6.2. ‘Changwe Yetu’ : Theatre as a Site of Encounters of Power on the Congolese Copperbelt
Enid Guene

Chapter 6.3. Radio and Dictatorship in Idi Amin’s Uganda
Derek R. Peterson

Chapter 6.4. The Timbre of Power in Burundi
Aidan Russell

Chapter 6.5. Music Technologies of Power in Gabon
Alice Aterianus-Owanga

Chapter 6.6. Digital Horizons, Cryptopolitical Agency, and Shifting Elsewheres in the Kinois Imagination in the Early Twenty-First Century
Katrien Pype

Part 7. Beyond the Human

Chapter 7.1. Weaving the Future: Duiker Hides Trade and the Aka in Colonial Central Africa
Etienne Gontard

Chapter 7.2. The Power of Pollution on the Central African Copperbelt
Iva Peša

Bibliography
List of contributors
Index