Charles Piot is Professor of Cultural Anthropology and African and African American Studies at Duke University;¿editor of Doing Development in West Africa: A Reader by and for Undergraduates, also published by Duke University Press;¿and author of Nostalgia for the Future: West Africa after the Cold War.

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. Business of Dreams  1
1. Border Practice  27
2. The Interview  45
3. Kinship by Other Means  63
4. Trading Futures  85
5. Embassy Indiscretions  109
6. Protest  124
7. Prison  134
8. America, Here We Come  148
9. Lomé 2018  171
Notes  179
Bibliography  195
Index  207

Charles Piot is Professor of Cultural Anthropology and African and African American Studies at Duke University; editor of Doing Development in West Africa: A Reader by and for Undergraduates, also published by Duke University Press; and author of Nostalgia for the Future: West Africa after the Cold War.