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Who owns the problem? : Africa and the struggle for agency /

"This book assembles lectures given by Pius Adesanmi that answer the questions: How may we conceptualize Africa in the driver's seat of her own destiny in the twenty-first century? How practically may her cultures become the foundation and driving force of her innovation, development, and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Adesanmi, Pius (Autor)
Otros Autores: Falola, Toyin (writer of foreword.), Harrow, Kenneth W. (writer of foreword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 2020.
Colección:African humanities and the arts.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword: More Than Just a Name / by Toyin Falola
  • Foreword / by Kenneth W. Harrow
  • Preface. Form as Resistance: The Story of This Book
  • #WhoOwnsTheProblem?
  • Culture, Development, and Other Annoyances
  • For Whom Is Africa Rising?
  • Africa Is People, Nigeria Is Nigerians: Provocations on Post-mendicant Economies
  • The Disappeared African Roots of Emma Watson's UN Feminism
  • The Africa Just Outside of Your Hilton Hotel Window
  • Capitalism and Memory: Of Golf Courses and Massage Parlors in Badagry, Nigeria
  • Ode to the Bottle-For Ken Harrow who Laughed
  • Aso Ebi on my Mind
  • Ara Eko, Ara Oke: Lagos, Culture, and the Rest of Us
  • A Race through Race in Missouri
  • Dowry: Managing Africa's Many Lovers
  • Caribbean Self, African Selfie
  • Face Me, I Book You: Writing Africa's Agency in the Age of the Netizen
  • What Does (Nigerian) Literature Secure?
  • Post-centenary Nigeria: New Literatures, New Leaders, New Nation