Politics and Policies in Upper Guinea Coast Societies

Chapter 1 Introduction: Deconstructing Tropes of Politics and Policies in Upper Guinea Coast Societies

Chapter 2 Poro Society, Migration, and Political Incorporation on the Freetown Peninsula, Sierra Leone

Chapter 3 Challenging the Classical Parameters of “Doing Host–Refugee Politics”: The Case of Casamance Refugees in The Gambia

Chapter 4 Betterment Versus Complicity: Struggling with Patron–Client Logics in Sierra Leone

Chapter 5 Kinship Tropes as Critique of Patronage in Postwar Sierra Leone

Chapter 6 Grand Narratives of Crisis: Customary Conflicts as a Factor in the Liberian Civil War and Implications for Policy

Chapter 7 Historicizing as a Legal Trope of Jeopardy in Asylum Narratives and Expert Testimonies of Gender-Based Violence

Chapter 8 Revisiting Tropes of Environmental and Social Change in Casamance, Senegal

Chapter 9 Casamance Secession: National Narratives of Marginalization and Integration

Chapter 10 Transcending Traditional Tropes: Autochthony as a Discourse of Conflict and Integration in Postwar Krio/Non-Krio Relations in Sierra Leone

Chapter 11 Ethnicity as Trope of Political Belonging and Conflict: Cape Verdean Identity and Agency in Guinea-Bissau

Chapter 12 Dynamics in the Host–Stranger Paradigm: The Broker Role of a Latecomer Association in Western Côte d’Ivoire

Chapter 13 Roads as Imaginary for Employing Idle Youth in the Post-Conflict Liberian State

Chapter 14 Tropes, Networks, and Higher Education in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone: Policy Formation at the University of Makeni

Chapter 15 Bulletproofing: Small Arms, International Law, and Spiritual Security in the Gambia