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Modernization as Spectacle in Africa /

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...

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Otros Autores: Manuh, Takyiwaa (Editor ), Miescher, Stephan (Editor ), Bloom, Peter J. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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505 0 0 |t Introduction /  |r Stephan F. Miescher, Peter J. Bloom, and Takyiwaa Manuh --  |g Part one: Modernization and the origins of the package --  |t After modernization: globalization and the African dilemma /  |r Percy C. Hintzen --  |t Modernization theory and the figure of blindness: filial reflections /  |r Andrew Apter --  |g Part two: Media, modernity, and modernization --  |t Film as instrument of modernization and social change in Africa: the long view /  |r Rosaleen Smyth --  |t Mass education, cooperation, and the "African mind" /  |r Aaron Windel --  |t Is propaganda modernity? Press and radio for "Africans" in Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Malawi during World War II and its aftermath /  |r Mhoze Chikowero --  |t Elocution, Englishness, and empire: film and radio in late colonial Ghana /  |r Peter J. Bloom --  |g Part three: Infrastructure and effects --  |t Negotiating modernization: the Kariba Dam project in the Central African Federation, ca. 1954-1960 /  |r Julia Tischler --  |t "No one should be worse off": the Akosombo Dam, modernization, and the experience of resettlement in Ghana /  |r Stephan F. Miescher --  |t Radioactive excess: modernization as spectacle and betrayal in postcolonial Gabon /  |r Gabrielle Hecht --  |g Part four: Institutional training in Nkrumah's Ghana --  |t Modeling modernity: the brief story of Kwame Nkrumah, a Nazi pilot named Hanna, and the wonders of motorless flight /  |r Jean Allman --  |t The African personality dances highlife: popular music, urban youth, and cultural modernization in Nkrumah's Ghana, 1957-1965 /  |r Nate Plageman --  |t Building institutions for the new Africa: the institute of African studies at the University of Ghana /  |r Takyiwaa Manuh --  |g Part five: Modernization and the literary imagination --  |t Theater and the politics of display: The tragedy of King Christophe at Senegal's first World Festival of Negro Arts /  |r Christina S. McMahon --  |t Reengaging narratives of modernization in contemporary African literature /  |r Nana Wilson-Tagoe --  |t Between nationalism and Pan-Africanism: Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo's theater and the art and politics of modernizing African culture /  |r Aida Mbowa. 
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