Ordinary Violence and Social Change in Africa -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Ordinary Violence in Africa -- Changing Life Worlds and Contested Space: Seclusion Practices among the Iraqw of Northern Tanzania -- A Chain of Family and Domestic Violence: Extramarital Pregnancy and Social Rupture in Burkina Faso -- Social Violence and Gender Inequality: Mali's Young Bambara Domestic Workers -- The Itinerant Koranic School: Contested Practice in the History of Religion and Society in Central Chad -- Surviving Structural Violence in Zimbabwe: The Case Study of a Family Coping with Violence -- The Cyclical Exchange of Violence in Congolese Kinship Relations -- Kill the Witch!: Anti-witchcraft Violence in the Central African Republic -- Ordinary Violence towards Street Children (Shegue) in Lubumbashi (D.R.C.) -- The Literary Threads of Domestic Violence in Mali -- Bibliography -- Index.