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Modernization as spectacle in Africa
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- Creator
- edited by Peter J. Bloom, Stephan F. Miescher, and Takyiwaa Manuh
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- Language
- English
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- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2014]
- Physical Details
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- vii, 368 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0253012333, 9780253012258, 0253012252, 0253012295, 9780253012333, 9780253012296
- OCLC
- ocn890531165, ocn843859596
- 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