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'Elsewhere': An essay on borderland ethnography in the informal African city

Matlon, 2015

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Matlon J
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In this article I reflect upon my experience as an ethnographer within the informal African city, which I describe as a borderland. In the contemporary African city informality prohibits peripheral men from achieving manhood, predicated on marriage, which requires steady …
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