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The Challenge of African Potentials : Conviviality, Informality and Futurity /
This collection of articles is based on presentations and discussions at the 2018 African Potentials Forum, held in Accra, Ghana. This forum was a part of the African Potentials Project, which aims to clarify the latent problem-solving abilities, ways of thinking, and institutions that have been cre...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2020
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 0 | 4 | |a The Challenge of African Potentials : |b Conviviality, Informality and Futurity / |c edited by Yaw Ofosu-Kusi & Motoji Matsuda. |
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| 490 | 0 | |a African potentials | |
| 500 | |a "In collaboration with the Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto University, Japan." | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction : the contemporary world and African potentials / Yaw Ofosu-Kusi and Motoji Matsuda -- The future African society : informality as a potential for development and progress / Yaw Ofosu-Kusi -- Itaru Ohta : the palaver sauce and juju of the African potentials network / Francis B. Nyamnjoh -- Collecting money through play : celebration parties as an economic process in southern Ghana / Akinori Hamada -- The potential of debts that cannot be paid / Yatuka Sakuma -- In search of place and life in indigenous urban communities : an exploration of Abese indigenous quarter of La Dadekotopon, Accra / Michihiro Kita, Seth Asare Okyere, Mira Sugita & Stephen Kofi Diko -- Integrated soil fertility management as a potential for Ghana's development : the geospatial approach / Mary Antwi -- Political satire and laughter in Africa / Takuo Iwata -- Place of African languages in the continent's potentials / Ibrahim Yahaya -- Traditional apprenticeship as an educational and life experience : life stories of young auto repair apprentices in Kumasi, Ghana / Shoko Yamada -- The unending 'tug-of-war' between the state and traditional healers in Ghana / Kojo Sena -- Conclusion : creativity, collectivity and conviviality : towards African potentials / Motoji Matsuda. | |
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| 520 | |a This collection of articles is based on presentations and discussions at the 2018 African Potentials Forum, held in Accra, Ghana. This forum was a part of the African Potentials Project, which aims to clarify the latent problem-solving abilities, ways of thinking, and institutions that have been created, accumulated, unified, and deployed in the everyday experiences of Africans. The notion of Africa's latent power/potential is not related to romanticisation of the traditional knowledge of African society and its institutions as fixed, essentialised 'magic wands'. This notion also raises objections against political dogmas that seek to smoke out and eliminate thought and values originating in Western modernity. The keyword of the Accra Forum was futurity. Africa's future is laden with possibilities, latent power, and potential. It is bright and hopeful but, simultaneously, bleak and thought-provoking. For nascent democracies and economically challenged communities, the value of this potential lies not in its static qualities but in how these qualities can be harnessed and translated into beneficial practical outcomes. As a concept, 'potential' connotes a time to come; a futurity that is full of known and unknown possibilities, challenges, and opportunities. | ||
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| 651 | 0 | |a Africa |x Politics and government |y 1960- | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Africa |x Economic conditions |y 1960- | |
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