Modernization as Spectacle in Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Modernization as Spectacle in Africa write by Peter J. Bloom. This book was released on 2014-05-09. Modernization as Spectacle in Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For postcolonial Africa, modernization was seen as a necessary outcome of the struggle for independence and as crucial to the success of its newly established states. Since then, the rhetoric of modernization has pervaded policy, culture, and development, lending a kind of political theatricality to nationalist framings of modernization and Africans' perceptions of their place in the global economy. These 15 essays address governance, production, and social life; the role of media; and the discourse surrounding large-scale development projects, revealing modernization's deep effects on the expressive culture of Africa.
Modernization and the Crisis of Development in Africa
Modernization and the Crisis of Development in Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Modernization and the Crisis of Development in Africa write by Jeremiah I. Dibua. This book was released on 2017-11-28. Modernization and the Crisis of Development in Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this book, Jeremiah I. Dibua challenges prevailing notions of Africa's development crisis by drawing attention to the role of modernization as a way of understanding the nature and dynamics of the crisis, and how to overcome the problem of underdevelopment. He specifically focuses on Nigeria and its development trajectory since it exemplifies the crisis of underdevelopment in the continent. He explores various theoretical and empirical issues involved in understanding the crisis, including state, class, gender and culture, often neglected in analysis, from an interdisciplinary, radical political economy perspective. This is the first book to adopt such an approach and to develop a new framework for analyzing Nigeria's and Africa's development crisis. It will influence the debate on the development dilemma of African and Third World societies and will be of interest to scholars and students of race and ethnicity, modern African history, class analysis, gender studies, and development studies.
In Search of Modernity
In Search of Modernity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In Search of Modernity write by Paul Tiyambe Zeleza. This book was released on 2003. In Search of Modernity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Having grappled with the question of modernisation for a long time, Africa now faces an issue that, with an increasingly knowledge-based global economy, has only become more urgent in this new millennium. This volume examines Africa's scientific and technological literacy, production and consumption, focusing in detail on the constraints and challenges, opportunities and developments, and the strategies required to promote the advancement of IT and biotechnology in Africa, to help advance our understanding of science and technology developments in Africa.
Development as Modernity, Modernity as Development
Development as Modernity, Modernity as Development - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Development as Modernity, Modernity as Development write by Lwazi Siyabonga Lushaba. This book was released on 2006. Development as Modernity, Modernity as Development available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Development as Modernity, Modernity as Development
Development as Modernity, Modernity as Development - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Development as Modernity, Modernity as Development write by Lwazi Lushaba. This book was released on 2009. Development as Modernity, Modernity as Development available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book analyses the impact of the Western idea of 'modernity' on development and underdevelopment in Africa. It traces the genealogy of the Western idea of modernity from European Enlightenment concepts of the universal nature of human history and development, and shows how this idea was used to justify the Western exploitation and oppression of Africa. It argues that contemporary development, theory and practice is a continuation of the Enlightenment project and that Africa can only achieve real development by rejecting Western modernity and inventing its own forms of modernity. The book is divided into four sections. The first section provides an outline of the theory of modernity in the Enlightenment project. In the second section, an attempt is made to trace the genealogy of the idea of development as modernity and how the African development process gets entangled with it. Here, its evolution is mapped through three periods: early modernity, capitalist modernity and late modernity. Zeroing in on the current era of late or hypermodernity, the book contests the idea that there is something new in globalisation and its neo-liberal development paradigm. The third section turns to the complex but pertinent question of how, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, Africa can transcend the impasse of modernity. The fourth and final section sums up the argument and points the way forward.
