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Negotiating Modernity Africa's Ambivalent Experience

Paperback • 2005 • English

Negotiating Modernity Africa's Ambivalent Experience

By Elsio Salvado Macamo

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About the book

Modernity is the unfinished business of our times. In the case of Africa, as the scholars contributing to this volume show, the continent has been through a particularly ambivalent experience of modernity. Most work has tended to emphasize, on the one hand, its alien nature in Africa and, on the other, the ways in which Africans have resisted it. While acknowledging this tension, the authors of this volume seek to show the extent to which this very tension has been constitutive of African social...Show more

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9781842776179

Publisher

Zed Books

Published year

2005

Language

English

Original title

Negotiating Modernity Africa's Ambivalent Experience

Format

Paperback

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