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Title:
The challenge of African Potentials : conviviality, informality and futurity / edited by Yaw Ofosu-Kusi & Motoji Matsuda.
Publisher:
Langaa RPCIG,
Copyright Date:
2020
Description:
x, 254 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 23 cm.
Subject:
Since 1960
Economic development--Africa.
Economic development.
Economic history.
Politics and government.
Social conditions.
Africa--Social conditions--21st century.
Africa--Politics and government--1960-
Africa--Economic conditions--1960-
Africa.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
1. Introduction: The Contemporary World and African Potentials -- 2. The Future African Society: Informality as a Potential for Development and Progress -- 3. Itaru Ohta: The Palaver Sauce and Juju of the African Potentials Network -- 4. Collecting Money Through Play: Celebration Parties as an Economic Process in Southern Ghana -- 5. The Potential of Debts that Cannot be Paid -- 6. In Search of Place and Life in Indigenous Urban Communities: An Exploration of Abese Indigenous Quarter of La Dadekotopon, Accra -- 7. Integrated Soil Fertility Management as a Potential for Ghana's Development: The Geospatial Approach -- 8. Political Satire and Laughter in Africa -- 9. Place of African Languages in the Continent's Potentials -- 10. Traditional Apprenticeship as an Educational and Life Experience: Life Stories of Young Auto Repair Apprentices in Kumasi, Ghana -- 11. The Unending 'Tug-of-War' between the State and Traditional Healers in Ghana -- 12. Conclusion: Creativity, Collectivity and Conviviality: Towards African Potential.
Series:
African potentials
ISBN:
9789956551149
9956551147
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1142505424
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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