Development, Modernism and Modernity in Africa (Routledge African Studies, 7)

ISBN 10: 0415719623 / ISBN 13: 9780415719629

Published by Routledge, 2013

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Development, Modernism and Modernity in Africa (Routledge African Studies, 7)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415719623
• ISBN 13: 9780415719629
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Like New
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

This anthology examines the "unfinished project of modernity" with respect to the unrealized potential for economic, social, and political development in Africa. It also shows how, facing the consequences of modernism, Africans in and out of the continent are responding to these unfinished projects drawing on (a) the customary, (b) the novelty of modernity, and (c) positive aspects of modernism, for the organization of their societies and the enrichment of their lives even as they contend with the negative aspects of modernity and modernism.

About the Author

Augustine Agwuele teaches in the Department of Anthropology at Texas State University-San Marcos.