Mohamed Gibril Sesay

“For the Sake of God”: Moral Brokerage, Credibility and the Contested Deservingness of Street Beggars in Freetown

This article examines street begging in Freetown as a moral, spatial and epistemic encounter in which material need must become credible before it attracts assistance. Drawing on interviews and field notes involving beggars, traders, religious actors and institutional stakeholders, it combines constructivist grounded t...