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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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  • 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.