TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hintzen,Percy C.
AU  - Manuh,Takyiwaa
AU  - Miescher,Stephan
AU  - Bloom,Peter J.
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Modernization as spectacle in Africa
SN  - 9780253012333
AV  - HC800 .M625 2014
U1  - 960.32 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Bloomington
PB  - Indiana University Press
KW  - Social change
KW  - Africa
KW  - Economic development
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Economic policy
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 1960-
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction; Stephan F. Miescher, Peter J. Bloom, and Takyiwaa Manuh --; Part one: Modernization and the origins of the package --; After modernization: globalization and the African dilemma; Percy C. Hintzen --; Modernization theory and the figure of blindness: filial reflections; Andrew Apter --; Part two: Media, modernity, and modernization --; Film as instrument of modernization and social change in Africa: the long view; Rosaleen Smyth --; Mass education, cooperation, and the "African mind"; Aaron Windel --; Is propaganda modernity? Press and radio for "Africans" in Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Malawi during World War II and its aftermath; Mhoze Chikowero --; Elocution, Englishness, and empire: film and radio in late colonial Ghana; Peter J. Bloom --; Part three: Infrastructure and effects --; Negotiating modernization: the Kariba Dam project in the Central African Federation, ca. 1954-1960; Julia Tischler --; "No one should be worse off": the Akosombo Dam, modernization, and the experience of resettlement in Ghana; Stephan F. Miescher --; Radioactive excess: modernization as spectacle and betrayal in postcolonial Gabon; Gabrielle Hecht --; Part four: Institutional training in Nkrumah's Ghana --; Modeling modernity: the brief story of Kwame Nkrumah, a Nazi pilot named Hanna, and the wonders of motorless flight; Jean Allman --; The African personality dances highlife: popular music, urban youth, and cultural modernization in Nkrumah's Ghana, 1957-1965; Nate Plageman --; Building institutions for the new Africa: the institute of African studies at the University of Ghana; Takyiwaa Manuh --; Part five: Modernization and the literary imagination --; Theater and the politics of display: The tragedy of King Christophe at Senegal's first World Festival of Negro Arts; Christina S. McMahon --; Reengaging narratives of modernization in contemporary African literature; Nana Wilson-Tagoe --; Between nationalism and Pan-Africanism: Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo's theater and the art and politics of modernizing African culture; Aida Mbowa
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780253012333/
ER  -