TY - BOOK AU - Geschiere,Peter AU - Meyer,Birgit AU - Pels,Peter TI - Readings in modernity in Africa T2 - Readings in-- SN - 9780253351760 (Indiana : hbk.) U1 - 960.3 22 PY - 2008/// CY - London PB - International African Institute in association with Indiana University Press, James Currey, Unisa Press KW - Ethnology KW - Africa KW - Moderniteit KW - gtt KW - Social policy KW - Economic policy KW - History KW - 1960- KW - Afrika N1 - Table of Contents Global discontent : abjection & the aftermath of modernism / James G. Ferguson Excerpts from Modernization : protest & change / S.N. Eisenstadt Fanti national constitution : administrative questions / John Mensah Sarbah The World Bank's changing discourse on development : from reliance on the state & "modernizing elites" to "bypassing the state" / World Bank Excerpts from Anthropology & development : understanding contemporary social change / Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan Excerpts from Buying futures : the upsurge of female entrepreneurship : crossing the formal/informal divide in southwest Cameroon / Margaret Niger-Thomas Report of the expedition sent by the government of Natal to instal Cetywayo as King of the Zulus / Theophilus Shepstone Ujamaa : the basis of African socialism / Julius Kambarage Nyerere The African Renaissance, South Africa & the world / Thabo Mbeki The pidginization of Luguru politics : administrative ethnography & the paradoxes of indirect rule / Peter Pels The resurgence of chiefs : retribalisation & modernity / Lungisile Ntsebeza Chiefs! Law, power & culture in contemporary South Africa / Barbara Oomen The African road to socialism / Leopold Sedar Senghor Society & ideology / Kwame Nkrumah African identities / Kwame Anthony Appiah Fait missionnaire & politics of the belly : a Foucaultian reading / Jean-Francois Bayart Rheumatic irony : questions of agency & self-deception as refracted through the art of living with spirits / Michael Lambek The new African : between nativism & cosmopolitanism / Achille Mbembe -- Staging Politisi : the dialogics of publicity & secrecy in Sierra Leone / Mariane Ferme Kinshasa : tales of the "invisible city" & the second world / Filip de Boeck On the worlding of African cities / Abdoumaliq Simone Degraded images, distorted sounds : Nigerian video & the infrastructure of piracy / Brian Larkin Kwaku's car : the struggles & stories of a Ghanaian long-distance taxi driver / Jojada Verrips, Birgit Meyer Witch-hunting & political legitimacy : continuity & change in Green Valley, Lebowa, 1930-91 / Isak A. Niehaus The Convert : act one scene III & act two scene III / Francis Nyamnjoh Aura & icon in contemporary Senegal Between Paris and Bacongo & Dandies in Bacongo / Justin-Daniel Gandoulou Evolués & Feymen : old & new figures of modernity in Cameroon / Basile Ndijio A successful life in the illegal realm : smugglers & road bandits in the Chad basin / Janet Roitman; Includes bibliographical references (p. [x]) and index ER -