Modern SovereignThe Modern Sovereign, a notion indebted both to Hobbess Leviathan and Marxs conception of capital, refers to the power that governed the African multitudes from the earliest colonial days to the post colonial era. It is an internalized power, responsible for the multiform violence exerted on bodies and imaginations. Joseph Tonda contends that in Central Africaand particularly in Gabon and the Congothe body is at the heart of political, religious,