- Description
Description
In a forthright and uncompromising manner, Ol f mi T w explores Africa's hostility toward modernity and how that hostility has impeded economic development and social and political transformation. What has to change for Africa to be able to respond to the challenges of modernity and globalization? T w insists that Africa can renew itself only by fully engaging with democracy and capitalism and by mining its untapped intellectual resources. While many may not agree with T w 's positions, they will be unable to ignore what he says. This is a bold exhortation for Africa to come into the 21st century.
Author: Olúfémi Táíwò
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 04/10/2014
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.54d
ISBN13: 9780253012753
ISBN10: 0253012759
BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | General
- Social Science | Developing & Emerging Countries
- History | Africa | General
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).
