Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-247) and index.

Introduction: Global shadows : Africa and the world. -- Globalizing Africa? : observations from an inconvenient continent. -- Paradoxes of sovereignty and independence : "real" and "pseudo-" nation-states and t he depoliticization of poverty. -- De-moralizing economies : African so cialism, scientific capitalism, and the moral politics of structural ad justment. -- Transnational topographies of power : beyond "the state" a nd "civil society" in the study of African politics. -- Chrysalis : the life and death of the African renaissance in a Zambian internet magazi ne. -- Of mimicry and membership : Africans and the "new world society" . -- Decomposing modernity : history and hierarchy after development. - - Governing extraction : new spatializations of order and disorder in n eoliberal Africa.