In the time of the meantime

Cid Moragas, Daniel, Bishop, Ryan and Simone, AbdouMaliq (2026) In the time of the meantime. In, Senegambia and its Global Connections. Bloomsbury Publishing.

Abstract

This chapter follows how African urban modalities –particularly the meantime described by AbdouMaliq Simone in Following the Fish– travel and settle within European spaces, forming what might be called “Africas from afar.” The meantime is not fixed to a place; it moves with people who inhabit Europe through tempos of waiting, improvisation, and experiment. Often suspended between papers, permissions, and shifting forms of visibility, these communities craft mobile ways of living –economic, spatial, affective– that quietly reshape the city from its gaps and thresholds.

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