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African Modernities

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ISBN-10: 0852557922

ISBN-13: 9780852557921

Edition: 2002

Authors: Jan-Georg Deutsch, Peter Probst, Heike Schmidt, Richard Rathbone, John Lonsdale

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This collection of studies investigates the multifaceted notion of African modernities. The authors examine ideas and practices of modernity, as well as the implication of its meaning in academic debate.
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Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, Limited
Publication date: 7/2/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.29" long x 0.45" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English

Jan-Georg Deutsch is Lecturer in Commonwealth History in the University of Oxford and the coeditor of African Modernities: Entangled Meanings in Current Debate.

Richard Rathbone is Professor of Modern African History at SOAS, University of London

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Cherished Visions & Entangled Meanings
West Africa: Modernity & Modernization
Jomo Kenyatta, God & the Modern World
Dislocation, Memory & Modernity: The Prophet Isiah Shembe & The Search for Voice & Space
Images of an African Modernity: The Likoni Ferry Photographers of Mombasa, Kenya
Governmentality, Materiality, Legality, Modernity: On The Colonial State in Africa
Reason, Modernity & the African Crisis
Modernization Theory, Modernization & African Modernities: An Outsider's View
Index