“This is a brilliant introduction to the power and potentials of
informality in contemporary Africa. Open, broad and convivial, it
challenges the usual images of backward Africa projected through the
lenses of Western modernity. Play, parties, laughter and satire create
alternative space for life and passages for development. It is a rare
and eye-opening account on everyday life in African societies through a
decade-long collaborative work of African and Asian activists and
scholars.”
