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...

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Other Authors: Macamo, Elísio Salvado
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Dakar, Senegal : London ; New York : Codesria Books ; in association with Zed Books, 2005.
Series:Africa in the new millennium.
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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.