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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| Format: | Livre |
| Langue: | English |
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Dakar, Senegal : London ; New York :
Codesria Books ; in association with Zed Books,
2005.
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| Collection: | Africa in the new millennium.
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| Résumé: | 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. |
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| Description matérielle: | 238 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1842776169 9781842776162 1842776177 9781842776179 2869781474 9782869781474 |