African Modernities
Edited by Jan-Georg Deutsch, Peter Probst, Heike Schmidt
ISBN 978-0-325-07120-6 / 0-325-07120-9 / 2002 / Cloth
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This is a collection of original studies investigating the multifaceted notion of African modernities. The authors examine ideas and practices of modernity as well as the implication of its meaning in current academic debate. Both perspectives are thoroughly interdependent, but they are often presented as distinct and opposed to each other. One of the main aims of this volume is to show just how they are related, and how they form a deeply entangled subject that continues to shape and affect the notion of modernity in Africa.
Introduction
Cherished Visions & Entangled Meanings, Jan-Georg Deutsch, Peter Probst & Heike Schmidt
West Africa: Modernity & Modernization, Richard Rathbone
Kenyatta, God and the Modern World, John Lonsdale
Dislocation, Memory and Modernity: the Prophet Isiah Shembe and the Search for Voice and Space, Liz Gunner
Images of and African Modernity: the Likoni Ferry Photographers of Mombasa, Kenya, Heike Behrend
Governmentality, Materiality, Legality, Modernity: On the Colonial State in Africa, John Comaroff
Reason, Modernity and the African Crisis, Simon Gikandi
Modernization Theory Modernization and African Modernites: an Outsider's View, Wolfgang Knobl
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