Middle Classes in Africa

Chapter 1 Introduction: Africa’s Middle Classes in Critical Perspective

Chapter 2 Turning the Poor into Something more Inspiring: The Creation of the African Middle Class Controversy

Chapter 3 The Narrative of ‘the African Middle Class’ and Its Conceptual Limitations

Chapter 4 Anthropology and Class in Africa: Challenges of the Past and Present

Chapter 5 The Ghanaian Middle Class, Social Stratification, and Long-Term Dynamics of Upward and Downward Mobility of Lawyers and Teachers

Chapter 6 The Nubians of Kibera ‘Revisited’: Detribalized Natives, Slum Dwellers, Middle Class?

Chapter 7 Saving and Serving the Nation: HIV Politics and the Emergence of New Professional Classes in Botswana

Chapter 8 Propertied Citizenship in a Township and Suburb in Johannesburg

Chapter 9 Thinking Sierra Leone and Building a New Middle Class: Political Expression and Political Values at the University of Makeni

Chapter 10 African Middle Classes: Formation and Destabilizing Effects

Chapter 11 Pathways into the Middle: Rites of Passage and Emerging Middle Classes in Namibia

Chapter 13 Middle Classes and ‘Moderate Prosperity’ in Rural Madagascar

Chapter 14 Afterword. The (Idea of) African Middle Classes: Theorizing from Africa