Modernization as spectacle in Africa / 
edited by Peter J. Bloom, Stephan F. Miescher, and Takyiwaa Manuh. 
 - vii, 368 pages ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>  Introduction /   After modernization: globalization and the African dilemma /   Modernization theory and the figure of blindness: f ilial reflections /   Film as instrument of modernization and social c hange in Africa: the long view /   Mass education , cooperation, and the "African mind" /   Is propag anda modernity? Press and radio for "Africans" in Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Malawi during World War II and its aftermath /   Elocution, Englishness, and empire: film and radio in late colonial Ghana /   Negotiating modernization: the Kariba Dam project in the Central African Federation, ca. 1954-1960 /   "No one sh ould be worse off": the Akosombo Dam, modernization, and the experience of resettlement in Ghana /   Radioactive ex cess: modernization as spectacle and betrayal in postcolonial Gabon /   Modeling modernity: the brief story of Kwame Nkrumah, a N azi pilot named Hanna, and the wonders of motorless flight /   The African personality dances highlife: popular music, urba n youth, and cultural modernization in Nkrumah's Ghana, 1957-1965 /   Building institutions for the new Africa: the insti tute of African studies at the University of Ghana /   Theat er and the politics of display: The tragedy of King Christophe at Seneg al's first World Festival of Negro Arts /   Reengaging narratives of modernization in contemporary African lite rature /   Between nationalism and Pan-African ism: Ngäugäi wa Thiong®o's theater and the art and politics of moderniz ing African culture /   Stephan F. Miescher, Peter J. Bloom, and Takyiwaa Manuh --   Per cy C. Hintzen --   Andrew Apter --   Rosaleen Smyth --   Aaron Windel --   Mhoze Chikowero --   Peter J. Bloom --   Julia Tischler --   Stephan F. Miescher --   Gabrielle Hecht --   Jean Al lman --   Nate Plageman --   Takyiwaa Manuh --   Christina S. McMahon --   Nana Wilson-Tagoe --   Aida Mbowa.   Part one: Modernization and the origins of the package --   Part two: Media, modernity, a nd modernization --   Part three: Infrastructure and effects --   Part four: Institutional training in Nkrumah' s Ghana --   Part five: Modernization and the literary imagination -- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780253012296 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780253012258 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780253012333 (ebook) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2013-042002 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Economic development--Social aspects--Africa.<br/>Social  change.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Africa--Economic conditions-- 1960-<br/>Africa--Social conditions-- 1960-<br/>Africa--Economic policy.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>960.32