Title & Author:

Modernization as spectacle in Africa / edited by Peter J. Bloom, Stephan F. Miescher, and Takyiwaa Manuh.

Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2014]

Description:

vii, 368 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Library copy: selected for the Multidisciplinary Research Project on "Centring Africa: Postcolonial Perspectives on Architecture", 2019-2021, developed by the CCA with the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

ISBN:

9780253012296 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0253012295 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780253012258 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0253012252 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780253012333 (ebook)
0253012333 (ebook)

Subject:

Economic development Social aspects Africa.
Social change Africa.
Economic development Social aspects.
Economic history.
Economic policy.
Social change.
Social conditions
Modernisierung
Postkolonialismus
Ekonomisk utveckling sociala aspekter.
Social förändring.
Africa Economic conditions 1960-
Africa Social conditions 1960-
Africa Economic policy.
Afrique Conditions économiques 1960-
Afrique Conditions sociales 1960-
Afrique Politique économique.
Africa.
Afrika

Added entries:

Bloom, Peter J., editor.
Miescher, Stephan, editor.
Manuh, Takyiwaa, editor.
Hintzen, Percy C. After modernization.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 317811
Call No.: 317811
Status: Available