La Chance: Uncertainty, Knowledge Production and Gameplay Among University Graduates in Bamako, Mali - Paperbackby Susann Ludwig (Author) The concept of la chance accounts for everyday knowledge production in uncertain contexts in Bamako, Mali, where university graduates constitute an educational elite strongest affected by unemployment. Graduates know that la chance decides whether they succeed or fail. Susann Ludwig shows that this concept embodies common sense as much as it offers the possibility of the extraordinary. Graduates play the game of la chance ,