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Till Förster is Chair of Social Anthropology at the University of Basel, Switzerland. He was a development expert and later associate professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cologne until 1996. He led the Africa Centre of the University of Bayreuth between 1996 and 2001 where he also co-directed a research axis of the interdisciplinary research programme on the causes and effects of globalisation in Africa. Till Förster has worked continually on questions of social, cultural and political transformations in Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon and in other parts of Africa and has a long publishing record on this and related themes. Lucy Koechlin is Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Basel, Switzerland. She works mainly on governance, political struggles, democratic spaces and urban politics in Eastern Africa. Until 2009 she was Head of Public Accountability at the Basel Institute of Governance, responsible for research and consultancies in the area of anti-corruption and accountability systems. Her publications include Corruption as an Empty Signifier: Politics and Political Order in Africa (Brill, 2013) and Non-state Actors as Standard Setters (ed. with Peters, A. et al., Cambridge University Press, 2009). She is also co-editor of the Basel Papers on Political Transformations.