Confinement, Punishment and Prisons in Africa

Introduction: thinking with prisons in Africa

The carceral imprint






Words, walls, and hierarchies: on some colonial legacies in the Burundian prison



Improving daily life? Senegalese prisoners' use of letters as an attempt to reform colonial prison (1930s)



Confinement and development in Ethiopia: the uses of prison in public policies



Mass expulsion as internal exclusion: police raids and the imprisonment of West African immigrants in Ghana, 1969-1972
Economies of value




'As if they can squeeze you to death': recollections of post-arrest journeys towards and into prison in South Africa



The carceral impasse seen from the perspective of street youth in Burkina Faso



The value of prison in South Africa: performing the prison experience beyond the prison
Tension within the dispensation of justice




'I don't steal, I don't lie, I cut!' The paradoxes of the imprisonment of women for female genital mutilation in Burkina Faso



In search of justice in an uncertain world (South Africa)



A justice that dare not speak its name? Amicable settlements in the commune of Abobo (Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire)
Transforming the prison




The languages of prison reform: how to speak about punishment in a period of political transition (Tunisia, 2011-2019)



Claiming rights in Yaounde Central Prison



The uses of pre-trial detention: a case study at the Maison Centrale in Conakry



Prison and the politics of the 'redemption script': a view from Johannesburg, South Africa



'Mother, you can't leave us here': thinking about incarcerated homosexuality. Interview with Ms Alice Nkom, Esq., lawyer at the Cameroon Bar