ABSTRACT

This anthology examines the "unfinished project of modernity" with respect to the unrealized potential for economic, social, and political development in Africa. It also shows how, facing the consequences of modernism, Africans in and out of the continent are responding to these unfinished projects drawing on (a) the customary, (b) the novelty of modernity, and (c) positive aspects of modernism, for the organization of their societies and the enrichment of their lives even as they contend with the negative aspects of modernity and modernism.

chapter |9 pages

Introduction

Betwixt Modernism and Modernity

part I|107 pages

Modernism/Modernity

chapter 1|14 pages

Between Delayed Modernity and Deferred Democracy 1

Africa's Troubled Takeoff

chapter 5|29 pages

From Village Square to Internet Square

Language and Culture at the USA Africa Dialogue Series

chapter 6|10 pages

Ẹlàlọrọ

A Didactic Approach to Yoruba Education

part II|123 pages

Modernism/Modernity

chapter 7|10 pages

The Old Chestnut of African Cultural Production

Insiders and Outsiders

chapter 8|15 pages

Strategic Collaborations between Nigerians and Germans

The Making of a Yorùbá Culture Movement

chapter 9|20 pages

Interrogating the African Artist

Interviews, Penetrations and Muholic Occupation

chapter 10|16 pages

Re-Imagining West African Women's Sexuality

Bekolo's Les Saignantes and the Mevoungou 1

chapter 11|14 pages

Matangazo ya Biashara na Jinsia

Gender Stereotypes and Advertisements in Kenya

chapter 12|16 pages

From Kamĩĩrĩthũ to XYZ-Show

Between Cultural “Flaws” and Democratic Change in Independent Kenya

chapter 13|18 pages

African Christianity

Its Scope in Global Context

chapter 14|12 pages

Women and Islam in Urban Burkina Faso

Piety between Definitions and Interpretation

part III|74 pages

Development

chapter 17|16 pages

Imminent Colonialism

Violence on Lutheran Mission Stations and the Ending of the Precolonial Zulu State

chapter 19|13 pages

Reengineering Social Institutions for Peace and Development

The Case of Postgenocide Rwanda