Modernization as Spectacle in Africa

Takyiwaa Manuh editor Stephan F Miescher editor Peter J Bloom editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Indiana University Press

Published:9th May '14

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

This paperback is available in another edition too:

Modernization as Spectacle in Africa cover

Rhetoric and reality of the modernizing project

For postcolonial Africa, modernization was seen as a necessary outcome of the struggle for independence and as crucial to the success of its newly established states. This book includes 15 essays that address governance, production, and social life; and the role of media.

For postcolonial Africa, modernization was seen as a necessary outcome of the struggle for independence and as crucial to the success of its newly established states. Since then, the rhetoric of modernization has pervaded policy, culture, and development, lending a kind of political theatricality to nationalist framings of modernization and Africans' perceptions of their place in the global economy. These 15 essays address governance, production, and social life; the role of media; and the discourse surrounding large-scale development projects, revealing modernization's deep effects on the expressive culture of Africa.

This is a varied collection of fifteen sole-authored chapters on modernization as spectacle, an area that has attracted little research to date . . . [A] good read.Feb. 2016

* Afri

ISBN: 9780253012296

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 658g

328 pages