Negotiating modernity : Africa's ambivalent experience /
The contributors look at how Africans negotiated the terms of modernity during the colonial period and are dealing with it in the post-colonial period. They argue that the African experience of modernity is unique and relevant for wider social theory, offering valuable analytical insights. The cases...
Saved in:
| Other Authors: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Dakar, Senegal : London ; New York :
Codesria Books ; in association with Zed Books,
2005.
|
| Series: | Africa in the new millennium.
|
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Absent father(s) : Garvey's scattered children & the back to Africa movement / Jalani A. Niaah
- The ties that bind : lessons from the historic African diaspora / Cassandra R. Veney
- Denying modernity : the regulation of native labour in colonial Mozambique and its postcolonial aftermath / Elísio Macamo
- Mozambican convert miners : missionaries or a herd without a shepherd : the Anglican mission of Santo Agostinho / Maciene, 1885-1905 / Alda Romão Saúte
- Globalization and the political economy of the African migration to the north / Francis Njubi Nesbitt
- From civil war to floods : implications for internal migration in Gaza province of Mozambique / Inês Macamo Raimundo
- The land question in Kenya : the place of the land tribunals in the land reform process in Kombewa division / Okuro Ong'wen Samwe
- Protecting refugees in the era of globalisation : the challenge of Africa in the new millennium / Ekuru Aukot.