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Congo-Paris investigates the transnational trade between Central Africa and Europe by focusing on the lives of individual traders from Kinshasa and Brazzaville who operate across national frontiers and often outside the law. Challenging the boundaries of traditional anthropology, Janet MacGaffey and Remy Bazenguissa-Ganga follow complex international networks to examine the ways in which the African second economy has been extended transnationally and globally on the margins of the law. Who are these traders? What strategies do they have, not only to survive but to shine? What kinds of networks do they rely on? What implications does their trade have for the study of globalization? The personal networks of ethnicity, kinship, religion, and friendship constructed by the traders fashion a world of their own. From Johannesburg to Cairo and from Dakar to Nairobi as well as in Paris, the Congolese traders are renowned and envied. This lively book shows that it is not just the multinationals who benefit from jets and mobile phones.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Anthropology

• Full title: Congo-Paris
• Author: J MacGaffey
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208
• EAN: 9780253214027
• ISBN: 0253214025
• ID: 01289684
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Weight: 256 g
• Dimensions: 215 × 139 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: July 2000

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