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Charles Piot

Charles Piot
Charles Piot is Professor of Cultural Anthropology and African and African American Studies at Duke University; editor of Doing Development in West Africa: A Reader by and for Undergraduates, also published by Duke University Press; and author of Nostalgia for the Future: West Africa after the Cold War.


The Togolese “Fixer” Who Helps Immigrants Play the U.S. Visa Lottery

Is the Path to Citizenship a Question of Trial and Error?
July 3, 2019  By Charles Piot
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