Twilight institutions : public authority and local politics in Africa / edited by Christian Lund.

Papers originally presented at a Ph.D. seminar at the Graduate School of International Development Studies, Roskilde University, in 2002.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Twilight institutions : an introduction / Christian Lund -- Twilight institutions : public authority and local politics in Africa / Christian Lund -- The politics of vigilance in southeastern Nigeria / David Pratten -- Reordering society : vigilantism and expressions of sovereignty in Port Elizabeth's townships / Lars Buur -- Negotiating authority between UNHCR and "the people" / Simon Turner -- "It was Satan that took the people" : the making of public authority in Burkina Faso / Sten Hagberg -- Dealing with the local state : the informal privatization of street-level bureaucracies in Senegal / Giorgio Blundo -- Decentralization, local taxation and citizenship in Senegal / Kristine Juul -- Contested sources of authority : re-claiming state sovereignty by formalizing traditional authority in Mozambique / Lars Buur and Helene Maria Kyed -- State making and the politics of the frontier in central Benin / Pierre-Yves Le Meur -- Decentralization, the state and conflicts over local boundaries in northern Ghana / Carola Lentz -- Strong bar,weak state lawyers, liberalism and state formation in Zambia / Jeremy Gould.