Africa S Quest For Modernity
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Africa S Quest For Modernity
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Author : Seifudein Adem
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-03-13
Africa S Quest For Modernity written by Seifudein Adem and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-13 with Political Science categories.
This monograph addresses the complexity of China-Africa and Japan-Africa relations from a comparative perspective. The volume is divided into five sections. Section I focuses on the divergent perspectives that are reflected in the discourse on China-Africa relations. Section II discusses Japan’s economic modernization and its potential lessons for Africa. Section III compares the foreign policies of Japan and China in Africa and analyzes their supposed rivalries on the continent. Section IV explores the relationship between Southeast Asia and China and its relevance to Africa-China relations. Section V provides an in-depth case study of Ethiopia-China relations over the last century. The book fills a major gap in the existing literature on the triad of Africa, China, and Japan. Under the guidance of the disciplines of African studies, international relations, political sociology, and international political economy, this volume elucidates and examines the complexities of the foreign policies of the two Asian powers toward Africa as well as their economic, political, and cultural underpinnings.
Africa S Quest For Modernity
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Author : Seifudein Adem
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023
Africa S Quest For Modernity written by Seifudein Adem and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with categories.
This monograph addresses the complexity of China-Africa and Japan-Africa relations from a comparative perspective. The volume is divided into five sections. Section I focuses on the divergent perspectives that are reflected in the discourse on China-Africa relations. Section II discusses Japan's economic modernization and its potential lessons for Africa. Section III compares the foreign policies of Japan and China in Africa and analyzes their supposed rivalries on the continent. Section IV explores the relationship between Southeast Asia and China and its relevance to Africa-China relations. Section V provides an in-depth case study of Ethiopia-China relations over the last century. The book fills a major gap in the existing literature on the triad of Africa, China, and Japan. Under the guidance of the disciplines of African studies, international relations, political sociology, and international political economy, this volume elucidates and examines the complexities of the foreign policies of the two Asian powers toward Africa as well as their economic, political, and cultural underpinnings.
In Search Of Modernity
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Author : Paul Tiyambe Zeleza
language : en
Publisher: Africa World Press
Release Date : 2003
In Search Of Modernity written by Paul Tiyambe Zeleza and has been published by Africa World Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Science categories.
Having grappled with the question of modernisation for a long time, Africa now faces an issue that, with an increasingly knowledge-based global economy, has only become more urgent in this new millennium. This volume examines Africa's scientific and technological literacy, production and consumption, focusing in detail on the constraints and challenges, opportunities and developments, and the strategies required to promote the advancement of IT and biotechnology in Africa, to help advance our understanding of science and technology developments in Africa.
Old Societies And New States
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Author : University of Chicago. Committee for the Comparative Study of New Nations
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1963
Old Societies And New States written by University of Chicago. Committee for the Comparative Study of New Nations and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1963 with Africa categories.
Old Societies And New States
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Author : Clifford Geertz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1963
Old Societies And New States written by Clifford Geertz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1963 with Africa categories.
Africa S Quest For A Philosophy Of Decolonization
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Author : Messay Kebede
language : en
Publisher: Rodopi
Release Date : 2004
Africa S Quest For A Philosophy Of Decolonization written by Messay Kebede and has been published by Rodopi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Decolonization categories.
This book discovers freedom in the colonial idea of African primitiveness. As human transcendence, freedom escapes the drawbacks of otherness, as defended by ethnophilosophy, while exposing the idiosyncratic inspiration of Eurocentric universalism. Decolonization calls for the reconnection with freedom, that is, with myth-making understood as the inaugural act of cultural pluralism. The cultural condition of modernization emerges when the return to the past deploys the future.
Africa Must Be Modern
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Author : Olúfémi Táíwò
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2014-04-10
Africa Must Be Modern written by Olúfémi Táíwò and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-10 with Philosophy categories.
In a forthright and uncompromising manner, Olúfémi Táíwò 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? Táíwò 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 Táíwò's positions, they will be unable to ignore what he says. This is a bold exhortation for Africa to come into the 21st century.
Old Societies And New States The Quest For Modernity In Asia And Africa Edited By Clifford Geertz
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Author : Chicago. University. Committee for the Comparative Study of New Nations
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1963
Old Societies And New States The Quest For Modernity In Asia And Africa Edited By Clifford Geertz written by Chicago. University. Committee for the Comparative Study of New Nations and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1963 with Africa categories.
Old Societies And New States The Quest For Modernity In Asia And Africa Ed By C Geertz
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1963
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Born In Blackness Africa Africans And The Making Of The Modern World 1471 To The Second World War
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Author : Howard W. French
language : en
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
Release Date : 2021-10-12
Born In Blackness Africa Africans And The Making Of The Modern World 1471 To The Second World War written by Howard W. French and has been published by Liveright Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-12 with History categories.
Revealing the central yet intentionally obliterated role of Africa in the creation of modernity, Born in Blackness vitally reframes our understanding of world history. Traditional accounts of the making of the modern world afford a place of primacy to European history. Some credit the fifteenth-century Age of Discovery and the maritime connection it established between West and East; others the accidental unearthing of the “New World.” Still others point to the development of the scientific method, or the spread of Judeo-Christian beliefs; and so on, ad infinitum. The history of Africa, by contrast, has long been relegated to the remote outskirts of our global story. What if, instead, we put Africa and Africans at the very center of our thinking about the origins of modernity? In a sweeping narrative spanning more than six centuries, Howard W. French does just that, for Born in Blackness vitally reframes the story of medieval and emerging Africa, demonstrating how the economic ascendancy of Europe, the anchoring of democracy in the West, and the fulfillment of so-called Enlightenment ideals all grew out of Europe’s dehumanizing engagement with the “dark” continent. In fact, French reveals, the first impetus for the Age of Discovery was not—as we are so often told, even today—Europe’s yearning for ties with Asia, but rather its centuries-old desire to forge a trade in gold with legendarily rich Black societies sequestered away in the heart of West Africa. Creating a historical narrative that begins with the commencement of commercial relations between Portugal and Africa in the fifteenth century and ends with the onset of World War II, Born in Blackness interweaves precise historical detail with poignant, personal reportage. In so doing, it dramatically retrieves the lives of major African historical figures, from the unimaginably rich medieval emperors who traded with the Near East and beyond, to the Kongo sovereigns who heroically battled seventeenth-century European powers, to the ex-slaves who liberated Haitians from bondage and profoundly altered the course of American history. While French cogently demonstrates the centrality of Africa to the rise of the modern world, Born in Blackness becomes, at the same time, a far more significant narrative, one that reveals a long-concealed history of trivialization and, more often, elision in depictions of African history throughout the last five hundred years. As French shows, the achievements of sovereign African nations and their now-far-flung peoples have time and again been etiolated and deliberately erased from modern history. As the West ascended, their stories—siloed and piecemeal—were swept into secluded corners, thus setting the stage for the hagiographic “rise of the West” theories that have endured to this day. “Capacious and compelling” (Laurent Dubois), Born in Blackness is epic history on the grand scale. In the lofty tradition of bold, revisionist narratives, it reframes the story of gold and tobacco, sugar and cotton—and of the greatest “commodity” of them all, the twelve million people who were brought in chains from Africa to the “New World,” whose reclaimed lives shed a harsh light on our present world.