Africa Must Be Modern: A Manifesto

by Olufemi Taiwo

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253012759
• ISBN13: 9780253012753
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 7.8"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher