Identification and citizenship in Africa : biometrics, the documentary state and bureaucratic writings of the self / edited by Séverine Awenengo Dalberto & Richard Banégas.

"In the context of a global biometric turn, this book investigates processes of legal identification in Africa "from below", asking what this means for the relationship between citizens and the state. Almost half of the population of the African continent was thought to lack a legal i...

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