Introduction: The Social Life of IDs in Contemporary Africa, Severine Awenengo Dalberto & Richard Banegas
Part 1. Biometric State versus Documentary State: Identification Technologies and Citizenship
1. "African Citizenships: A Biometric Turn?", Severine Awenengo Dalberto, Richard Banegas & Armando Cutolo
2. "Documentary Government and Mathematical Identification. On the theoretical significance of African biometric government", Keith Breckenridge
3. "Legible Bodies and Lives. How a Biometric Registration Campaign Reinvented the Chadian Population", Marielle Debos
4. Testimonies and Social Markers in the Age of Biometrics. The Work of the Identity Control and Verification Commission in Chad, Kelma Manatouma
5. "Digitalized Paper Barriers. Identity Verifications and Exclusions of Immigrants Learners in Low Income High-Schools of Johannesburg", Jeanne Bouyat
6. "The Malian refugee card in Burkina Faso" Nora Bardelli
7. "The Republic and its Double. Forgery, Inequalities and State Morality in Cameroon", Marie-Emmanuelle Pommerolle
8. "General Amnesty for All 'Rene Cailles'! Falsifying Birth Certificates and Reforming Legal Identification in Cote d'Ivoire", Richard Banegas & Armando Cutolo & Souleymane Kouyate
Part 2. Identity, Citizenship and the Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion
9. The French West African Identity Card in Senegal. The Challenges and Meanings of Legal Identification in the Era of Imperial Citizenship (1946-1960), Severine Awenengo Dalberto
10. " A Kipande for Ugandans?The Aborted 1947 'Identity Card for Africans'" Sandrine Perrot 11. "Papers to Ward Off the Threat. Identity Cards, Documentary Uncertainty, and Genocide in Rwanda", Florent Piton
12. "Rwanda: Identity Papers under Belgian Colonial Occupation", Leon Saur
13. "Kenya's Ethnic Somalis and Access to Identity Papers. Citizenship and Nation-Building in North-East Kenya", Herve Maupeu
14. "Bureaucracy and the Politics of Identification in Nigeria. Issuing Certificates of Indigene and Investigating Citizens' Ancestral Origins", Laurent Fourchard
15. "'Hands Off My Citizenship!' Biometrics and its Politics in Mauritania", Zekeria Ould Ahmed Salem
16. "What State is There for Those 'Without Paper or Pencil'? A Case Study of Women and Identification in North Cameroon, Claude Mbowou
Part 3. Bureaucratic Writing of the Self: Political Subjectivities and the Social Production of Papers
17. "Disputing Parenthood at the Civil Registry in Cote d'Ivoire in the 1960s", Louise Barre
18. "Bureaucratic Interpersonal Knowledge. Village Identity Papers and the Production of Moral Homelands in Uganda", Florence Brisset-Foucault
19. "Negotiating Indigenousness. Citizenship and the Struggle for Papers of the Maragoli Community in Uganda", Sandrine Perrot & Gerald Owachi
20. "Bureaucratizing Self-Defence and Reframing Identities. The Case of Koglweogo in Burkina Faso", Romane Da Cunha Dupuy
21. "'Here is My Evidence'. The Documented Path of a Woman Ex-Combatant from Cote d'Ivoire", Kamina Diallo 22. "Faith Papers. Transnational Mobility, Christian Networks, and Citizenship in Morocco and Senegal", Johara Berriane
23. "A Driver and his Licence in Senegal. Professional Ethos and Documentary Imaginary", Sidy Cissokho
24. "Inanimate Politics. Identifying 'Lifeless and Undocumented Migrants' in Guinea and Morocco", Alimou Diallo
25. Postface : "The Identificatory City in Sub-Saharan Africa", Jean-Francois Bayart
