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The Rise of Africa's Middle Class
Myths, Realities and Critical Engagements
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About this book
Across Africa, a burgeoning middle class has become the poster child for the 'Africa rising' narrative. Ambitious, aspirational and increasingly affluent, this group is said to embody the values and hopes of the new Africa, with international bodies ranging from the United Nations Development Programme to the World Bank regarding them as important agents of both economic development and democratic change. This narrative, however, obscures the complex and often ambiguous role that this group actually plays in African societies.
Bringing together economists, political scientists, anthropologists and development experts, and spanning a variety of case studies from across the continent, this collection provides a much-needed corrective to the received wisdom within development circles, and provides a fresh perspective on social transformations in contemporary Africa.
Bringing together economists, political scientists, anthropologists and development experts, and spanning a variety of case studies from across the continent, this collection provides a much-needed corrective to the received wisdom within development circles, and provides a fresh perspective on social transformations in contemporary Africa.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- About the Editor
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- ‘Somewhere Above Poor but Below Rich’: Explorations into the Species of the African Middle Class(es)
- 1: African Middle Classes: Lessons from Transnational Studies and a Research Agenda
- 2: Human Development and the Construction of Middle Classes in the Global South
- 3: Africa’s Middle Class, Africa’s Entrepreneurs and the ‘Missing Middle’
- 4: Deconstructing the Myth of the African Middle Class
- 5: Kenya – An Unconscious Middle Class? Between Regional-Ethnic Political Mobilization and Middle Class Lifestyles
- 6: Middle Class Activism in Nigeria: From Nationalist Struggle to Social Media Campaign
- 7: Emerging Middle Class Political Subjectivities in Post-War Angola
- 8: The Middle Class of Mozambique and the Politics of the Blank Slate
- 9: South Africa’s Black Middle Class Professionals
- 10: The Middle Class of Dar es Salaam and Kiswahili Video-Films
- How Much Class have the African Middle Classes?
- About the Contributors
- Index
- Back Cover