This collection of articles is based on presentations and discussions at the 2018 African Potentials Forum, held in Accra, Ghana. This forum was a part of the African Potentials Project, which aims to clarify the latent problem-solving abilities, ways of thinking, and institutions that have been created, accumulated, unified, and deployed in the everyday experiences of Africans. The notion of Africas latent power/potential is not related to romanticisation of the traditional knowledge of African society and its institutions as fixed, essentialised magic wands. This notion also raises objections against political dogmas that seek to smoke out and eliminate thought and values originating in Western modernity. The keyword of the Accra Forum was futurity. Africas future is laden with possibilities, latent power, and potential. It is bright and hopeful but, simultaneously, bleak and thought-provoking. For nascent democracies and economically challenged communities, the value of this potential lies not in its static qualities but in how these qualities can be harnessed and translated into beneficial practical outcomes. As a concept, potential connotes a time to come; a futurity that is full of known and unknown possibilities, challenges, and opportunities.

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Chapter 1 - Introduction: The Contemporary World and African Potentials
Chapter 2 - The Future African Society: Informality as a Potential for Development and Progress
Chapter 3 - Itaru Ohta: The Palaver Sauce and Juju of the African Potentials Network
Chapter 4 - Collecting Money Through Play: Celebration Parties as an Economic Process in Southern Ghana
Chapter 5 - The Potential of Debts that Cannot be Paid
Chapter 6 - In Search of Place and Life in Indigenous Urban Communities: An Exploration of Abese Indigenous Quarter of La Dadekotopon, Accra
Chapter 7 - Integrated Soil Fertility Management as a Potential for Ghana’s Development: The Geospatial Approach
Chapter 8 - Political Satire and Laughter in Africa
Chapter 9 - Place of African Languages in the Continent’s Potentials
Chapter 10 - Traditional Apprenticeship as an Educational and Life Experience: Life Stories of Young Auto Repair Apprentices in Kumasi, Ghana
Chapter 11 - The Unending ‘Tug-of-war’ between the State and Traditional Healers in Ghana
Chapter 12 - Conclusion: Creativity, Collectivity and Conviviality: Towards African Potentials
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