Modernization as spectacle in Africa
Modernization as spectacle in Africa [electronic resource] /
edited by Peter J. Bloom, Stephan F. Miescher, and Takyiwaa Manuh.
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2014]
- 1 online resource (vii, 368 pages )
- UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / After modernization: globalization and the African dilemma / Modernization theory and the figure of blindness: filial reflections / Film as instrument of modernization and social change in Africa: the long view / Mass education, cooperation, and the "African mind" / Is propaganda modernity? Press and radio for "Africans" in Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Malawi during World War II and its aftermath / Elocution, Englishness, and empire: film and radio in late colonial Ghana / Negotiating modernization: the Kariba Dam project in the Central African Federation, ca. 1954-1960 / "No one should be worse off": the Akosombo Dam, modernization, and the experience of resettlement in Ghana / Radioactive excess: modernization as spectacle and betrayal in postcolonial Gabon / Modeling modernity: the brief story of Kwame Nkrumah, a Nazi pilot named Hanna, and the wonders of motorless flight / The African personality dances highlife: popular music, urban youth, and cultural modernization in Nkrumah's Ghana, 1957-1965 / Building institutions for the new Africa: the institute of African studies at the University of Ghana / Theater and the politics of display: The tragedy of King Christophe at Senegal's first World Festival of Negro Arts / Reengaging narratives of modernization in contemporary African literature / Between nationalism and Pan-Africanism: Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo's theater and the art and politics of modernizing African culture / Stephan F. Miescher, Peter J. Bloom, and Takyiwaa Manuh -- Percy C. Hintzen -- Andrew Apter -- Rosaleen Smyth -- Aaron Windel -- Mhoze Chikowero -- Peter J. Bloom -- Julia Tischler -- Stephan F. Miescher -- Gabrielle Hecht -- Jean Allman -- Nate Plageman -- Takyiwaa Manuh -- Christina S. McMahon -- Nana Wilson-Tagoe -- Aida Mbowa. Part one: Modernization and the origins of the package -- Part two: Media, modernity, and modernization -- Part three: Infrastructure and effects -- Part four: Institutional training in Nkrumah's Ghana -- Part five: Modernization and the literary imagination --
9780253012333 0253012333
Social change--Africa.
Economic development--Social aspects--Africa.
Africa--Economic policy.
Africa--Social conditions--1960-
Africa--Economic conditions--1960-
Electronic books.
HC800 / .M625 2014
960.32
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / After modernization: globalization and the African dilemma / Modernization theory and the figure of blindness: filial reflections / Film as instrument of modernization and social change in Africa: the long view / Mass education, cooperation, and the "African mind" / Is propaganda modernity? Press and radio for "Africans" in Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Malawi during World War II and its aftermath / Elocution, Englishness, and empire: film and radio in late colonial Ghana / Negotiating modernization: the Kariba Dam project in the Central African Federation, ca. 1954-1960 / "No one should be worse off": the Akosombo Dam, modernization, and the experience of resettlement in Ghana / Radioactive excess: modernization as spectacle and betrayal in postcolonial Gabon / Modeling modernity: the brief story of Kwame Nkrumah, a Nazi pilot named Hanna, and the wonders of motorless flight / The African personality dances highlife: popular music, urban youth, and cultural modernization in Nkrumah's Ghana, 1957-1965 / Building institutions for the new Africa: the institute of African studies at the University of Ghana / Theater and the politics of display: The tragedy of King Christophe at Senegal's first World Festival of Negro Arts / Reengaging narratives of modernization in contemporary African literature / Between nationalism and Pan-Africanism: Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo's theater and the art and politics of modernizing African culture / Stephan F. Miescher, Peter J. Bloom, and Takyiwaa Manuh -- Percy C. Hintzen -- Andrew Apter -- Rosaleen Smyth -- Aaron Windel -- Mhoze Chikowero -- Peter J. Bloom -- Julia Tischler -- Stephan F. Miescher -- Gabrielle Hecht -- Jean Allman -- Nate Plageman -- Takyiwaa Manuh -- Christina S. McMahon -- Nana Wilson-Tagoe -- Aida Mbowa. Part one: Modernization and the origins of the package -- Part two: Media, modernity, and modernization -- Part three: Infrastructure and effects -- Part four: Institutional training in Nkrumah's Ghana -- Part five: Modernization and the literary imagination --
9780253012333 0253012333
Social change--Africa.
Economic development--Social aspects--Africa.
Africa--Economic policy.
Africa--Social conditions--1960-
Africa--Economic conditions--1960-
Electronic books.
HC800 / .M625 2014
960.32