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Title:

Development, modernism and modernity in Africa / edited by Augustine Agwuele.

Publisher:

Routledge,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

xii, 327 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Economic development--Social aspects--Africa.
Africa--Social conditions--1960-
Africa--Politics and government--1960-
Africa--Economic conditions--1960-
Africa--Western influences.--Western influences.

Other Authors:

Agwuele, Augustine.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction / Augustine Agwuele -- Part 1. Modernism-modernity: sociocultural transformation: Between delayed modernity and deferred democracy: Africa's troubled take-off / Ali A. Mazrui -- A critique of Cornel West's "Race and modernity" / Hetty ter Haar -- Chieftaincy, collective interests and the Dagomba new elite / Deborah Pellow -- Murid identity and Wolof Ajami literature in Senegal / Fallou Ngom -- From village square to internet square: language and culture at the Usa Africa dialogue series / Augustine Agwuele -- Elaloro: a didactic approach to Yoruba education / Michael O. Afoláyan -- Part 2. Modernism-modernity: arts, media and religion: The old chestnut of African cultural production: insiders and outsiders / Kenneth W. Harrow -- Strategic collaborations between Nigerians and Germans: the making of a Yorùbá culture movement / Debra Klein -- Interrogating the Africana artist: interviews, penetration, and Muholic occupation / Moyosore Okediji -- Re-imagining West African women's sexuality: Bekolo's Les saignantes and the Mevoungou / Naminata Diabate -- Matangazo ya biashara na jinsia: gender stereotypes and advertisements in Kenya / Maurice Nyamanga Amutabi -- From Kamiirithu to xyz-show: between cultural "flaws" and democratic change in independent Kenya / Hannington Ochwada -- African Christianity: its scope in global context / Caleb O. Oladipo -- Women and Islam in urban Burkina Faso: piety between definitions and interpretation / Liza Debevec -- Part 3. Development: economic and political transformation: Globalization and the governance of foreign direct investment in Africa / Roshen Hendrickson -- The Fulani land/settlement question in British Southern Cameroon, 1916-1960 / Emmanuel M. Mbah -- Imminent colonialism: violence on Lutheran mission stations and the ending of the pre-colonial Zulu State / Kirsten Rüther -- Colonialism and cultural change in Africa / Julius O. Adekunle -- Reengineering social institutions for peace and development: the case of post-genocide Rwanda / Wanjala S. Nasong'o.

Series:

Routledge African studies ; 7.

ISBN:

0203157575 (ebk.)
9780203157572 (ebk.)
0415899249 (alk. paper)
9780415899246 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)724642166

LCCN:

2011023772

Locations:

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)