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Title: READINGS IN MODERNITY IN AFRICA
By: Peter Geschiere (Editor), Birgit Meyer (Editor), Peter Pels (Editor)
Format: Book

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ISBN 10: 0253219965
ISBN 13: 9780253219961
Publisher: INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 17 December, 2008
Series: Readings in African Studies
Pages: 256
Description: New perspectives on one of the most problematic issues in contemporary African studies
Synopsis: Questions surrounding modernity and its meanings weigh heavily on students and scholars who study Africa. Becoming modern carries a lot of different meanings and puts concepts of culture, tradition, and nation into uneasy use. Readings in Modernity in Africa brings together classic essays, old and new, to help assess the issues and problems of modernity in an African context. Questions include: How can we discuss modernity without lapsing into a Western-dominated view of history? How do we avoid losing sight of the diversity of local forms? How is it that modernity has such a powerful impact on African lives? This wide-ranging volume provides new perspectives and suggests alternatives for how a better future might be implemented in Africa and beyond.
Publication: US
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Returns: Returnable
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