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Limits on public access to government-held information in Gabon, 1960-92. Summaries in English and German.

1 Mobilities, ICTs and marginality in Africa: South Africa in comparative perspective / Francis B Nyamnjoh and Ingrid Brudvig 1. - Part 1 Negotiating Marginality: ICTs as means of empowerment 19. - 2 Defeating marginality: Mobile phones as a rite of passage / Crystal Powell 21. - 3 Adopting and adapting the 'Hearing Baby': Appropriation and domestication of the cell phone by the Deaf of Cape Town / Myrna van Pinxteren 34. - 4 The invisible visible and the visible invisible: Zimbabwean migrant women in Johannesburg and their cell phones / Nikiwe Solomon 47. - 5 Navigating and negotiating relationships through the cell phone: The case of Basotho women / Kefiloe Sello 62. - Part 2 Negotiating distance: Migration, mobility and ICTs 69. - 6 Negotiating intimacy, distance and marginality: Migration, religion and the use of ICTs at the Bay Community Church in Cape Town / Paula Hay 71. - 7 Gifting, reciprocity and obligation in communication by young Cameroonians in Cape Town / Kate Jackson 85. - 8 Mobility and the challenge of obligation and reciprocity: The case of Côte d'Ivoire / Francis B Nyamnjoh 98. - Part 3 Negotiating belonging: ICTs, diaspora and citizenship 121. - 9 Belonging nowhere and everywhere: The repercussion of the Indo-Mauritian Diaspora's modern connection with India / Moshumee T Dewoo 123. - 10 Belonging away from home: Building community and virtual intimacies among frontier Pinyin migrants in Cape Town and Cameroon / Henrietta M Nyamnjoh 138. - 11 ICTs, news and networking among Somali migrants in Cape Town: Prospects for a mobile nationhood? / Ingrid Brudvig 152. - Part 4 Reconfiguring the Social Field through Digital Inclusion 167. - 12 Mobile margins: Mobile communication and the reconfiguration of the family in post-independence Namibia / Volker Winterfeldt and Ndeshimona Namupala 169. - 13 From letter writers to call box attendants: Communicating in a marginal community in Cameroon Grassfields, c. 1940-2000 / Walter Gam Nkwi 185. - 1

"Postcolonial African Anthropologies showcases a selection of recent African ethnographies and critically discusses anthropology's engagement with decolonisation and postcolonialism. The ethnographers in the book show that contemporary anthropology in Africa is dynamic and deeply self-reflexive, engaging issues of power and life in Africa and its nearby diaspora in multi-vocal and diverse ways."--Back cover

This is a significant and timely book on the politics of belonging. It captures, with fascinating detail and insight, the current widespread disaffection with the sterile rhetoric of nation-building that has characterised much of postcolonial African politics. Until the liberation struggles of the 1990s, dictatorship only paid lip service to democracy with impunity, often by silencing those perceived to threaten national unity. Since then, individuals and groups have reactivated claims to rights and entitlements and nowhere more so than in Cameroon. The book articulates the experiences and predicaments of the country's Anglophone community trapped in a marriage of inconvenience pregnant with tensions and conflicts