Enduring PolygamyWhy hasnt polygamous marriage died out in African cities, as experts once expected it would? Enduring Polygamy considers this question in one of Africas fastest growing cities: Bamako, the capital of Mali, where one in four wives is in a polygamous marriage. Using polygamy as a lens through which to survey sweeping changes in urban life, it offers ethnographic and demographic insights into the customs, gender norms and hierarchies, kinship structures,