Modernization as spectacle in Africa
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- ISBN: 0253012252
- ISBN: 9780253012258
- ISBN: 0253012295
- ISBN: 9780253012296
- ISBN: 0253012333
- ISBN: 9780253012333
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Physical Description:
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remote - Publisher: Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, ©2014.
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General Note: | CatMonthString:august.17 Multi-User. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction / Stephan F. Miescher, Peter J. Bloom, and Takyiwaa Manuh -- Part one: Modernization and the origins of the package -- After modernization: globalization and the African dilemma / Percy C. Hintzen -- Modernization theory and the figure of blindness: filial reflections / Andrew Apter -- Part two: Media, modernity, and modernization -- Film as instrument of modernization and social change in Africa: the long view / Rosaleen Smyth -- Mass education, cooperation, and the "African mind" / Aaron Windel -- Is propaganda modernity? Press and radio for "Africans" in Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Malawi during World War II and its aftermath / Mhoze Chikowero -- Elocution, Englishness, and empire: film and radio in late colonial Ghana / Peter J. Bloom -- Part three: Infrastructure and effects -- Negotiating modernization: the Kariba Dam project in the Central African Federation, ca. 1954-1960 / Julia Tischler -- "No one should be worse off": the Akosombo Dam, modernization, and the experience of resettlement in Ghana / Stephan F. Miescher -- Radioactive excess: modernization as spectacle and betrayal in postcolonial Gabon / Gabrielle Hecht -- Part four: Institutional training in Nkrumah's Ghana -- Modeling modernity: the brief story of Kwame Nkrumah, a Nazi pilot named Hanna, and the wonders of motorless flight / Jean Allman -- The African personality dances highlife: popular music, urban youth, and cultural modernization in Nkrumah's Ghana, 1957-1965 / Nate Plageman -- Building institutions for the new Africa: the institute of African studies at the University of Ghana / Takyiwaa Manuh -- Part five: Modernization and the literary imagination -- Theater and the politics of display: The tragedy of King Christophe at Senegal's first World Festival of Negro Arts / Christina S. McMahon -- Reengaging narratives of modernization in contemporary African literature / Nana Wilson-Tagoe -- Between nationalism and Pan-Africanism: Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo's theater and the art and politics of modernizing African culture / Aida Mbowa. |
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