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Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction Narrating a History of Domestic Life, Sexuality, Being, and Feeling in Urban Africa

Part I FROM ATLANTIC OCEAN TRADING POST TO COLONIAL CAPITAL CITY, 1849–1929

Chapter 1 Sexual Economy in the Era of Trade and Politics: The Founding of Libreville, 1849–1910

Chapter 2 Planning, Protest, and Prostitution: Libreville in the Era of Timber, 1910–1929

Part II LIBREVILLE’S GROWTH, 1930–1960

Chapter 3 Migration and Governance: The Expansion of Libreville

Chapter 4 The Bridewealth Economy: Money and Relationships of Affinity

Chapter 5 Jurisprudence: Marriage and Divorce Law

Chapter 6 “Faire Bon Ami” (To Be Good Friends): Sex, Pleasure, and Punishment

Chapter 7 “A Black Girl Should Not Be with a White Man”: Interracial Sex, African Women, and Respectability

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index