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Africa and Globalization : Challenges of Governance and Creativity / / edited by Toyin Falola, Kenneth Kalu
| Africa and Globalization : Challenges of Governance and Creativity / / edited by Toyin Falola, Kenneth Kalu |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2018.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (261 pages) |
| Disciplina | 337.16 |
| Collana | African Histories and Modernities |
| Soggetto topico |
Africa - History
Ethnology - Africa Culture Africa - Politics and government Economic development African History African Culture African Politics Development Studies |
| ISBN |
9783319749051
3319749056 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction: Africa in a Globalized World -- I. Africa's Adaptation to Globalization -- 2. The Rediscovery of Africa -- 3. Globalization and the Creative Space in Africa: Implications for Governance and Development -- 4. Postcolonial Africa's Development Trajectories -- 5. Collective Social Action: Enlightenment Ethic and the Rise of Modern Individualism -- 6. Same Migrants, Two Business Models: Culture-centered and Non-traditional Businesses Established by Ethiopians and Eritreans in Washington D.C -- 7. Making Sense of South Africa's Soft Power: Projections, Prospects, and Possibilities -- II. Governance and Creativity -- 8. Developmental Strategies and Cultural Dynamics in Rural Nigeria -- 9. The Impossible Craft of Nation-Building in Postcolonial Cameroon -- 10. Creativity and New Technologies: Piracy, Politics, and the Business of Cultural Production in Nigeria -- 11. Igbo Community Policing and its Relevance for Contemporary Nigeria -- 12. "Come and Chop": Representations of the Parliamentarian in Ola Rotimi's If and Emeka Nwabueze's A Parliament of Vultures. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910299802903321 |
| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Exploitation and Misrule in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa / / edited by Kenneth Kalu, Toyin Falola
| Exploitation and Misrule in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa / / edited by Kenneth Kalu, Toyin Falola |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2019.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (307 pages) |
| Disciplina | 320.158096 |
| Collana | African Histories and Modernities |
| Soggetto topico |
Africa - History
Imperialism African literature Africa - Politics and government Economic development African History Imperialism and Colonialism African Literature African Politics Development Studies |
| ISBN |
9783319964966
3319964968 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction: Exploitation, Colonialism, and Postcolonial Misrule in Africa -- Section I. Encounters: Texts, Images, and Fiction -- 2. Rupturing Neocolonial Legacies in the African Novel: Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Matigari as a Paradigm -- 3. Decolonial Visions in Mid-Twentieth-Century African Rhetoric: Perspectives from Kwame Nkrumah's Consciencism -- 4. Images of Colonialism in the Text of Two African Female Poets -- 5. Migration and Exile: The Exotic Essence of Life in Bessie Head's When Rain Clouds Gather -- 6. Ingrid de Kok's "A Room Full of Questions" and South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission -- 7. Identity, the "Passing" Novel, and the Phenomenology of "Race" -- Section II. Encounters: Spaces of Subjugation and Dominance -- 8. Precolonial Imaginaries and Colonial Legacies in Mobutu's "Authentic" Zaïre -- 9. World War II and West African Soldiers in Asia, 1943-1947 -- 10. A Colonizing Agricultural Company in Somalia: The Duke of Abruzzi's Società Agricola Italo-Somala in the Italian Colonial Fascist System -- 11. The Magical Hour of Midnight: The Annual Commemorations of Rhodesia's and Transkei's Independence Days -- 12. Colonial Ideologies and the Emergence of Two Spaces: The Nigerian Experience. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910484929603321 |
| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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