[Linganth] Adeline Masquelier on her book, Fada

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
This Monday on the blog, Rahul Advani chats with Adeline Masquelier about
bored young men in Niger.

https://campanthropology.org/

Best,
Ilana

Press blurb: Niger most often comes into the public eye as an example of
deprivation and insecurity. Urban centers have become concentrated areas of
unemployment filled with young men trying, against all odds, to find jobs
and fill their time with meaningful occupations. At the heart of Adeline
Masquelier’s groundbreaking book is the *fada*—a space where men gather to
escape boredom by talking, playing cards, listening to music, and drinking
tea. As a place in which new forms of sociability and belonging are forged
outside the unattainable arena of work, the fada has become an integral
part of Niger’s urban landscape. By considering the fada as a site of
experimentation, Masquelier offers a nuanced depiction of how young men in
urban Niger engage in the quest for recognition and reinvent their own
masculinity in the absence of conventional avenues to self-realization. In
an era when fledgling and advanced economies alike are struggling to
support meaningful forms of employment, this book offers a timely glimpse
into how to create spaces of stability, respect, and creativity in the face
of diminished opportunities and precarity.
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