Introduction : what it means to be "reformed"
"They think we can manufacture crops" : contract farming and the nontraditional commodity business
"Everybody is a petty trader" : peri-urban trade in postconflict Maputo, Mozambique
"We now milk elephants" : the community conservation business in rural Kenya
"They are beating us over the head with democracy" : multiparty elections in rural Kenya
"The government is always telling us what to think" : narratives of food aid dependence in rural Ethiopia
"Counting the poor" : the politics of pastoralist poverty assessments in Kenya
"A sort of free business" : hyper-liberalization and Somali transnationalism
Conclusions : rethinking encounters and reformist narratives.
Economic and political reform in Africa : anthropological perspectives by Peter D. Little. ISBN 9780253010841. Published by Indiana University Press in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.