Introduction -- Part 1 Challenging Modes of Thinking: Making Maps and Mapping History -- 1 "So Geographers in Africa Maps with Savage Pictures Fill Their Gaps" -- 2 The Challenges of Writing African Economic History -- Part 2 Contested Categories: Economy, Politics, and Society -- 3 Structural Adjustment -- 4 Poverty Profile in Sub-Saharan Africa -- 5 Civil Society, Pluralism, Goldilocks, and Other Fairy Tales in Africa -- 6 Beyond the State and Civil Society -- 7 Silencing Power -- 8 Negotiating Identity in Post-Settlement South Africa -- 9 Negotiable Property -- Part 3 Violence of the Word/Violence Against the Body -- 10 Mapping Africa's Presences -- 11 Contesting Terrains Over a Massacre -- 12 Negotiating Postwar Identities -- 13 Sex and the Politics of Space in Colonial Zimbabwe -- 14 Girls, Sex, and the Dangers of Urban Schooling in Coastal Madagascar -- 15 The Moving Frontier of AIDS in Uganda -- 16 Contested Claims and Individual Bodies.