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Africa Must Be Modern: A Manifesto

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by Olufemi Taiwo
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Availability:In StockContributor:Olufemi TaiwoPublish date:4/1/2014Pages:256
Language:EnglishPublisher:Indiana University Press (Ips)ISBN-13:9780253012753ISBN-10:253012759UPC:9780253012753Book Category:Philosophy, Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Developing & Emerging Countries, AfricaSize:7.81 x 5.06 x 0.54 inchesWeight:0.56Product ID:SC5C0ZEBTD

Africa Must Be Modern: A Manifesto

In a forthright and uncompromising manner, Olúfémi Táíwò explores Africa's hostility toward modernity and how that hostility has impeded economic development and social and political transformation. What has to change for Africa to be able to respond to the challenges of modernity and globalization? Táíwò insists that Africa can renew itself only by fully engaging with democracy and capitalism...

Language:EnglishPublisher:Indiana University Press (Ips)ISBN-13:9780253012753ISBN-10:253012759UPC:9780253012753Book Category:Philosophy, Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Developing & Emerging Countries, AfricaSize:7.81 x 5.06 x 0.54 inchesWeight:0.56Product ID:SC5C0ZEBTD

Olúfémi Táíwò is Professor of Africana Studies at the Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University. He is author of How Colonialism Preempted Modernity in Africa (IUP, 2010).


Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips)

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