ABSTRACT
This anthology examines the "unfinished project of modernity" with respect to the unrealized potential for economic, social, and political development in Africa. It also shows how, facing the consequences of modernism, Africans in and out of the continent are responding to these unfinished projects drawing on (a) the customary, (b) the novelty of modernity, and (c) positive aspects of modernism, for the organization of their societies and the enrichment of their lives even as they contend with the negative aspects of modernity and modernism.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|107 pages
Modernism/Modernity
chapter 5|29 pages
From Village Square to Internet Square
Language and Culture at the USA Africa Dialogue Series
part II|123 pages
Modernism/Modernity
chapter 8|15 pages
Strategic Collaborations between Nigerians and Germans
The Making of a Yorùbá Culture Movement
chapter 10|16 pages
Re-Imagining West African Women's Sexuality
Bekolo's Les Saignantes and the Mevoungou
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chapter 12|16 pages
From Kamĩĩrĩthũ to XYZ-Show
Between Cultural “Flaws” and Democratic Change in Independent Kenya
chapter 14|12 pages
Women and Islam in Urban Burkina Faso
Piety between Definitions and Interpretation
part III|74 pages
Development
chapter 17|16 pages
Imminent Colonialism
Violence on Lutheran Mission Stations and the Ending of the Precolonial Zulu State
chapter 19|13 pages
Reengineering Social Institutions for Peace and Development
The Case of Postgenocide Rwanda