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010			_a2013-042002
020			_a9780253012296 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020			_a9780253012258 (cloth : alk. paper)
020			_a9780253012333 (ebook)
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092			_aMISR 960.32 MOD
245			_aModernization as spectacle in Africa / _cedited by Peter J. Bloom, Stephan F. Miescher, and Takyiwaa Manuh.
264			_aBloomington : _bIndiana University Press, _c[2014]
300			_avii, 368 pages ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505			_t Introduction / _r Stephan F. Miescher, Peter J. Bloom, and Takyiwaa Manuh -- _g Part one: Modernization and the origins of the package -- _t After modernization: globalization and the African dilemma / _r Per cy C. Hintzen -- _t Modernization theory and the figure of blindness: f ilial reflections / _r Andrew Apter -- _g Part two: Media, modernity, a nd modernization -- _t Film as instrument of modernization and social c hange in Africa: the long view / _r Rosaleen Smyth -- _t Mass education , cooperation, and the "African mind" / _r Aaron Windel -- _t Is propag anda modernity? Press and radio for "Africans" in Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Malawi during World War II and its aftermath / _r Mhoze Chikowero -- _t Elocution, Englishness, and empire: film and radio in late colonial Ghana / _r Peter J. Bloom -- _g Part three: Infrastructure and effects -- _t Negotiating modernization: the Kariba Dam project in the Central African Federation, ca. 1954-1960 / _r Julia Tischler -- _t "No one sh ould be worse off": the Akosombo Dam, modernization, and the experience of resettlement in Ghana / _r Stephan F. Miescher -- _t Radioactive ex cess: modernization as spectacle and betrayal in postcolonial Gabon / _r Gabrielle Hecht -- _g Part four: Institutional training in Nkrumah' s Ghana -- _t Modeling modernity: the brief story of Kwame Nkrumah, a N azi pilot named Hanna, and the wonders of motorless flight / _r Jean Al lman -- _t The African personality dances highlife: popular music, urba n youth, and cultural modernization in Nkrumah's Ghana, 1957-1965 / _r Nate Plageman -- _t Building institutions for the new Africa: the insti tute of African studies at the University of Ghana / _r Takyiwaa Manuh -- _g Part five: Modernization and the literary imagination -- _t Theat er and the politics of display: The tragedy of King Christophe at Seneg al's first World Festival of Negro Arts / _r Christina S. McMahon -- _t Reengaging narratives of modernization in contemporary African lite rature / _r Nana Wilson-Tagoe -- _t Between nationalism and Pan-African ism: Ngäugäi wa Thiong®o's theater and the art and politics of moderniz ing African culture / _r Aida Mbowa.
650			_aEconomic development _xSocial aspects _zAfrica.
650			_aSocial change.
651			_aAfrica _xEconomic conditions _y 1960-
651			_aAfrica _xSocial conditions _y 1960-
651			_aAfrica _xEconomic policy.
700			_aBloom, Peter J., _eeditor of compilation.
700			_aMiescher, Stephan, _eeditor of compilation.
700			_aManuh, Takyiwaa, _eeditor of compilation.
700			_a Hintzen, Percy C. _t After modernization.
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