This chapter examines one of the newly emerging, transnational, social sites that has
developed in the process of intercontinental migration of Ghanaians abroad. It argues that its …

Among the many immigrant groups that have settled in the Netherlands, the recently arrived
migrants from Ghana have been perceived by the Dutch state as especially problematic. …

The rapid increase in adoption of modern'connective'technologies like the mobile phone has
reshaped the social landscape of Africa. This book examines the myriad possibilities that …

Marriage used to be widespread and common throughout Southern Africa. However, over
the past decades marriage rates have substantially declined in the whole region. Marriage …

This article examines the role of religion in identity formation in situations where individuals
are engaged in intercontinental diasporic movement. Such diasporic movement involves the …

There is a growing body of literature which explores the encroaching forms of modernity in
terms of time and temporality. 2 Modernity, in its forms of missionisation, colonisation and …

This article deals with the moral panic that emerged in the Netherlands when it became
publicly known that under-age Nigerian girls were being smuggled into the country to be put to ‘…

This anthology deals with the complexity, variety and experience of all the forms of mobility
we witness today in Sub-Saharan Africa. Three sets of issues are being discussed. First, the …

The paradigm of the enchanted global economy and the moral perils of involvement with
foreign commodities suggests that anxieties about the generally immoral powers believed to …

In various parts of Africa, Pentecostalism underscores the necessity for its members to make
a complete break with the past. Although Pentecostalism speaks a language of modernity in …