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An African Anthropocene

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 May 2022

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African Studies Review , Volume 65 , Issue 3 , September 2022 , pp. 743 - 754
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© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the African Studies Association

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1. A few examples include: Baptista, Idalina, “‘We Live on Estimates’: Everyday Practices of Prepaid Electricity and the Urban Condition in Maputo, Mozambique” (International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 39 (5): 1004–19)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Degani, Michael, “Shock Humor: Zaniness and the Freedom of Permanent Improvisation in Urban Tanzania” (Cultural Anthropology 33 (3): 473–98CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and von Schnitzler, Antina, Democracy’s Infrastructure: Techno-Politics and Protest after Apartheid (Reprint edition. Princeton University Press, 2016).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

2. Sanderson, Eric W. “Opinion | Let Water Go Where It Wants to Go” (The New York Times, September 28, 2021, sec. Opinion. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/28/opinion/hurricane-ida-new-york-city.html).