Foreword / Holger Bernt Hansen
Introduction: Reconstructing the archive of Africans in exile / Nathan Riley Carpenter & Benjamin N. Lawrance
Part One: The legal worlds of exile
"Wayward humours" and "perverse disputings" / Ruma Chopra
From bandits to political prisoners / Trina Leah Hogg
The path of extinction / Nathan Riley Carpenter
Reforming state violence in French West Africa / Marie Rodet & Romain Tiquet
A kingdom in check / Thaïs Gendry
"As if I were in prison" / Brett L. Shadle
Part Two: Geographies of exile
In the city of waiting / Joanna T. Tague
Amilcar Cabral and the Bissau revolution in exile / Aliou Ly
Brothers in the bush / Kate Skinner
A Cold War geography / Susan Dabney Pennybacker
The French trials of Cléophas Kamitatu / Meredith Terretta
Part Three: Remembering and performing exile
Forced labor and migration in São Tomé and Príncipe / Marina Berthet
Sheikh Ahmadu Bamba and the poetics of exile / Sana Camara
The legacy of exile / Kris Inman
Reconstructing slavery in Ohioan exile / E. Ann McDougall
A nation abroad / Benjamin N. Lawrance
Epilogue. From exile with love / Baba Galleh Jallow
Afterword. Worlds and words of migration / Emily S. Burrill
"Exiles" / by Abena P.A. Busia.