
Confinement, Punishment and Prisons in Africa
This interdisciplinary volume presents a nuanced critique of the prison experience in diverse detention facilities across Africa.
The book stresses the contingent, porous nature of African prisons, across both time and space. It draws on original long-term ethnographic research undertaken in both Francophone and Anglophone settings, which are grouped in four parts. The first part examines how the ...
This interdisciplinary volume presents a nuanced critique of the prison experience in diverse detention facilities across Africa.
The book stresses the contingent, porous nature of African prisons, across both time and space. It draws on original long-term ethnographic research undertaken in both Francophone and Anglophone settings, which are grouped in four parts. The first part examines how the ...