Elizabeth Cooper is Associate Professor at the School for International Studies at Simon Fraser University.Erdmute Alber is Professor and Chair of Social Anthropology at the University of Bayreuth. Wandia Njoya is Associate Professor of Literature at Daystar University in Kenya.

• AcknowledgmentsChapter 1: The Education Alibi in Africa: Tracing Processes of Responsibilization, Depoliticization, and the Production of InequalityElizabeth Cooper, Erdmute Alber, and Wandia NjoyaPart I. ResponsibilizationChapter 2: Responsibilizing Parents to Overcome Blindness: Changing Intergenerational Relations Through Education for All in Northern BeninErdmute AlberChapter 3: Symbolic Investment, Actual Indebtedness: The Competing Logics of the School Sector in the Contemporary DRC (Lubumbashi, Haut-Katanga)Edoardo QuarettaChapter 4: “The Teachers Just Consume Our Money”: Casting Blame for Educational Failure in Rural LesothoClaire Elisabeth Dungey and Nicola AnsellChapter 5: Changing the Narrative on School Arson in Kenya: Beyond Pathologizing and Criminalizing ApproachesHildah Oburu Part II. DepoliticizationChapter 6: Education Without Critical Consciousness: An Autoethnography Wandia Njoya Chapter 7: Educational Reform in Times of Crisis: The Dual Missions of Corporatized Education in Liberia Tyler Hook Chapter 8: “Preserving Girls’ Futures”: Girlhood, Schooling, and Development in NigerAdeline Masquelier Chapter 9: Exam Securitization as Alibi: Education and the Distrustful Paradigm of Governance in KenyaElizabeth Cooper Part III. Production of InequalityChapter 10: The Paradox of South African Schooling: An Analysis of Multiple Exploitations of the Education Alibi Suriamurthee Moonsamy MaistryChapter 11: The Immorality of Pregnancy and Truancy as Alibi: Uncovering Systemic Discrimination in Access to Basic Education in TanzaniaAikande KwayuChapter 12: Education Between Desire and Rejection: The Perspectives of Young Illiteracized Peoples on Schooling in BeninIssifou Abou MoumouniChapter 13: Privilege of Prayer: Moral Becoming as Class Formation in Postcolonial Tanzania Hansjörg Dilger List of ContributorsIndex

Elizabeth Cooper is Associate Professor at the School for International Studies at Simon Fraser University.Erdmute Alber is Professor and Chair of Social Anthropology at the University of Bayreuth. Wandia Njoya is Associate Professor of Literature at Daystar University in Kenya.

• AcknowledgmentsChapter 1: The Education Alibi in Africa: Tracing Processes of Responsibilization, Depoliticization, and the Production of InequalityElizabeth Cooper, Erdmute Alber, and Wandia NjoyaPart I. ResponsibilizationChapter 2: Responsibilizing Parents to Overcome Blindness: Changing Intergenerational Relations Through Education for All in Northern BeninErdmute AlberChapter 3: Symbolic Investment, Actual Indebtedness: The Competing Logics of the School Sector in the Contemporary DRC (Lubumbashi, Haut-Katanga)Edoardo QuarettaChapter 4: “The Teachers Just Consume Our Money”: Casting Blame for Educational Failure in Rural LesothoClaire Elisabeth Dungey and Nicola AnsellChapter 5: Changing the Narrative on School Arson in Kenya: Beyond Pathologizing and Criminalizing ApproachesHildah Oburu Part II. DepoliticizationChapter 6: Education Without Critical Consciousness: An Autoethnography Wandia Njoya Chapter 7: Educational Reform in Times of Crisis: The Dual Missions of Corporatized Education in Liberia Tyler Hook Chapter 8: “Preserving Girls’ Futures”: Girlhood, Schooling, and Development in NigerAdeline Masquelier Chapter 9: Exam Securitization as Alibi: Education and the Distrustful Paradigm of Governance in KenyaElizabeth Cooper Part III. Production of InequalityChapter 10: The Paradox of South African Schooling: An Analysis of Multiple Exploitations of the Education Alibi Suriamurthee Moonsamy MaistryChapter 11: The Immorality of Pregnancy and Truancy as Alibi: Uncovering Systemic Discrimination in Access to Basic Education in TanzaniaAikande KwayuChapter 12: Education Between Desire and Rejection: The Perspectives of Young Illiteracized Peoples on Schooling in BeninIssifou Abou MoumouniChapter 13: Privilege of Prayer: Moral Becoming as Class Formation in Postcolonial Tanzania Hansjörg Dilger List of ContributorsIndex

Elizabeth Cooper is Associate Professor at the School for International Studies at Simon Fraser University.Erdmute Alber is Professor and Chair of Social Anthropology at the University of Bayreuth. Wandia Njoya is Associate Professor of Literature at Daystar University in Kenya.

• AcknowledgmentsChapter 1: The Education Alibi in Africa: Tracing Processes of Responsibilization, Depoliticization, and the Production of InequalityElizabeth Cooper, Erdmute Alber, and Wandia NjoyaPart I. ResponsibilizationChapter 2: Responsibilizing Parents to Overcome Blindness: Changing Intergenerational Relations Through Education for All in Northern BeninErdmute AlberChapter 3: Symbolic Investment, Actual Indebtedness: The Competing Logics of the School Sector in the Contemporary DRC (Lubumbashi, Haut-Katanga)Edoardo QuarettaChapter 4: “The Teachers Just Consume Our Money”: Casting Blame for Educational Failure in Rural LesothoClaire Elisabeth Dungey and Nicola AnsellChapter 5: Changing the Narrative on School Arson in Kenya: Beyond Pathologizing and Criminalizing ApproachesHildah Oburu Part II. DepoliticizationChapter 6: Education Without Critical Consciousness: An Autoethnography Wandia Njoya Chapter 7: Educational Reform in Times of Crisis: The Dual Missions of Corporatized Education in Liberia Tyler Hook Chapter 8: “Preserving Girls’ Futures”: Girlhood, Schooling, and Development in NigerAdeline Masquelier Chapter 9: Exam Securitization as Alibi: Education and the Distrustful Paradigm of Governance in KenyaElizabeth Cooper Part III. Production of InequalityChapter 10: The Paradox of South African Schooling: An Analysis of Multiple Exploitations of the Education Alibi Suriamurthee Moonsamy MaistryChapter 11: The Immorality of Pregnancy and Truancy as Alibi: Uncovering Systemic Discrimination in Access to Basic Education in TanzaniaAikande KwayuChapter 12: Education Between Desire and Rejection: The Perspectives of Young Illiteracized Peoples on Schooling in BeninIssifou Abou MoumouniChapter 13: Privilege of Prayer: Moral Becoming as Class Formation in Postcolonial Tanzania Hansjörg Dilger List of ContributorsIndex