Imagining Futures: Memory and Belonging in an African Family

by Carola Lentz and Isidore Lobnibe

What keeps a family together? In Imagining Futures, authors Carola Lentz and Isidore Lobnibe offer a unique look at one extended African family, currently comprising over five hundred members in Northern Ghana and Burkina Faso.

Members of this extended family, like many others in the region, find themselves living increasingly farther apart and working in diverse occupations ranging from religious clergy and civil service to farming...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253060214
• ISBN13: 9780253060211
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher