Imagining Futures Memory and Belonging in an African Family

[Imagining Futures] is a grippingly personal, yet analytically cogent, biography of a unit whose existence is testified to by the affections, deliberations and practices of its members, yet is undermined as its membership becomes progressively larger and more diverse. It will fascinate - and prove instructive to - students of anthropology, history and social sciences more generally, in Africa and beyond.

The book, Imagining Futures: Memory and Belonging in an African Family is an excellent ethnographic study, which offers a very unique perspective on an extended African family of over 500 members based in Northern Ghana and Burkina Faso, the former French colony in West Africa...We recomend it with admiration and without reservation to college students as well as advanced scholars and the general reader, who wish to deepen their knowledge of the subject.