Africa Must Be Modern - A Manifesto

Ol¿f¿ T¿¿ is Professor of Africana Studies at the Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University. He is author of How Colonialism Preempted Modernity in Africa (IUP, 2010).

List of contents

Preface to the U.S. Edition

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Why Africa Must Get on Board the Modernity Express

2. The Sticky Problem of Individualism

3. The Knowledge Society and Its Rewards

4. Count, Measure, and Count Again

5. Process, not Outcome: Why Trusting Your Leader, Godfather, Ethnic Group or Chief May

Not Best Secure Your Advantage

6. Against the Philosophy of Limits: Installing a Culture of Hope

Index

About the author

Olúfémi Táíwò is Professor of Africana Studies at the Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University. He is author of How Colonialism Preempted Modernity in Africa (IUP, 2010).

Summary

Explores Africa's hostility toward modernity and how that hostility has impeded economic development and social and political transformation. This book insists that Africa can renew itself only by fully engaging with democracy and capitalism and by mining its untapped intellectual resources.

Product details

• Authors: Olufemi Taiwo, Olúfémi Táíwò, Olúfémi/ Taiwo Táíwò, Taiwo Olufemi
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.04.2014
• EAN: 9780253012722
• ISBN: 978-0-253-01272-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Politikwissenschaft, Afrika, Entwicklungsökonomie und Schwellenländer