Negotiating modernity : Africa's ambivalent experience /

The contributors look at how Africans negotiated the terms of modernity during the colonial period and are dealing with it in the post-colonial period. They argue that the African experience of modernity is unique and relevant for wider social theory, offering valuable analytical insights. The cases...

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Other Authors: Macamo, Elísio Salvado
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Dakar, Senegal : London ; New York : Codesria Books ; in association with Zed Books, 2005.
Series:Africa in the new millennium.
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Summary:The contributors look at how Africans negotiated the terms of modernity during the colonial period and are dealing with it in the post-colonial period. They argue that the African experience of modernity is unique and relevant for wider social theory, offering valuable analytical insights. The cases presented cover labor, land rights, religious conversion, internal migration, emigration and the African diaspora.
Physical Description:238 pages ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:1842776169
9781842776162
1842776177
9781842776179
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9782869781474