Modernization as spectacle in Africa

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Modernization as spectacle in Africa

edited by Peter J. Bloom, Stephan F. Miescher, and Takyiwaa Manuh

Indiana University Press, c2014

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

  • After modernization : globalization and the African dilemma / Percy C. Hintzen
  • Modernization theory and the figure of blindness : filial reflections / Andrew Apter
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 Thiongʾo's theater and the art and politics of modernizing African culture / Aida Mbowa

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