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 the depoliticization of poverty -- De-moralizing economies : African socialism, scientific capitalism, and the moral politics of structural adjustment -- Transnational topographies of power : beyond "the state" and "civil society" in the study of African politics -- Chrysalis : the life and death of the African renaissance in a Zambian internet magazine -- 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 neoliberal Africa.