ISBN:
9780253012296
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9780253012258
Language:
English
Pages:
vii, 368 Seiten
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Illustrationen
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24 cm
DDC:
960.32
Keywords:
Economic development Social aspects
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Social change
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Africa Economic conditions 1960-
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Africa Social conditions 1960-
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Africa Economic policy
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Subsaharisches Afrika
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Modernisierung
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Sozialer Wandel
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Introduction
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Part one: Modernization and the origins of the packageAfter modernization: globalization and the African dilemma
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Modernization theory and the figure of blindness: filial reflections
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Part two: Media, modernity, and modernizationFilm as instrument of modernization and social change in Africa: the long view
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Mass education, cooperation, and the "African mind"
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Is propaganda modernity? Press and radio for "Africans" in Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Malawi during World War II and its aftermath
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Elocution, Englishness, and empire: film and radio in late colonial Ghana
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Part three: Infrastructure and effectsNegotiating modernization: the Kariba Dam project in the Central African Federation, ca. 1954-1960
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"No one should be worse off": the Akosombo Dam, modernization, and the experience of resettlement in Ghana
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Radioactive excess: modernization as spectacle and betrayal in postcolonial Gabon
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Part four: Institutional training in Nkrumah's GhanaModeling modernity: the brief story of Kwame Nkrumah, a Nazi pilot named Hanna, and the wonders of motorless flight
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The African personality dances highlife: popular music, urban youth, and cultural modernization in Nkrumah's Ghana, 1957-1965
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Building institutions for the new Africa: the institute of African studies at the University of Ghana
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Part five: Modernization and the literary imaginationTheater and the politics of display: The tragedy of King Christophe at Senegal's first World Festival of Negro Arts
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Reengaging narratives of modernization in contemporary African literature
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Between nationalism and Pan-Africanism: Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo's theater and the art and politics of modernizing African culture
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