Further on, Lombard spends half a page, including one of the book's few pictures, acknowledging the role of female participants in her research, albeit only as facilitators: Habiba teaches Lombard Chadian Arabic (so that Lombard can speak to men?) (p. 32). Lombard contends that governance in CAR's hinterland, an area where the state is only felt in its weighty absence "so frequently invoked as to become its own presence" (p. 15), needs to be understood radically differently. To those fatigued by omnipresent accounts of failed African states, Louisa Lombard's eloquent and thought-provoking I Hunting Game i offers refreshing insights on sovereignty, disorder, and African politics. [Extracted from the article]