Ordinary african geographies

Abstract

In Africa, as elsewhere in the world, people’s spatialities are multiscalar, networked and connected. This eclectic dossier offers articles about expressions, places and temporalities that reflect the everyday and complex spatialities of 21st-century in African societies. Through local anchorage in resistance to multiple stresses, through mobilization and inhabitant expertise, through transnational circulation and labile migratory networks, the spatialities at work shed light on the trajectories of Africans grappling with global issues, of which the continent is a center among others. The proposed results are based on solid fieldwork, enabling us to construct other geographical narratives. The two interviews and five articles also question the current directions of research in and on Africa, its epistemological stakes, its material conditions of production and its institutional challenges.