Africa Must Be Modern

A Manifesto

Olúfémi Táíwò (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2014
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-01272-2 (ISBN)

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Explores Africa's hostility toward modernity and how that hostility has impeded economic development and social and political transformation. This book insists that Africa can renew itself only by fully engaging with democracy and capitalism and by mining its untapped intellectual resources.

In a forthright and uncompromising manner, Olúfémi Táíwò explores Africa's hostility toward modernity and how that hostility has impeded economic development and social and political transformation. What has to change for Africa to be able to respond to the challenges of modernity and globalization? Táíwò insists that Africa can renew itself only by fully engaging with democracy and capitalism and by mining its untapped intellectual resources. While many may not agree with Táíwò's positions, they will be unable to ignore what he says. This is a bold exhortation for Africa to come into the 21st century.

Olúfémi Táíwò is Professor of Africana Studies at the Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University. He is author of How Colonialism Preempted Modernity in Africa (IUP, 2010).

Preface to the U.S. Edition

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Why Africa Must Get on Board the Modernity Express

2. The Sticky Problem of Individualism

3. The Knowledge Society and Its Rewards

4. Count, Measure, and Count Again

5. Process, not Outcome: Why Trusting Your Leader, Godfather, Ethnic Group or Chief May
Not Best Secure Your Advantage

6. Against the Philosophy of Limits: Installing a Culture of Hope

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	10.4.2014
Verlagsort	Bloomington, IN
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	381 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	0-253-01272-4 / 0253012724
ISBN-13	978-0-253-01272-2 / 9780253012722
Zustand	Neuware