Negotiating Modernity: Africa's Ambivalent Experience (Africa in the New Millennium Series)
The contributors look at how Africans negotiated the terms of modernity during the colonial period and are dealing with it in the post-colonial period. They argue that the African experience of modernity is unique and relevant for wider social theory, offering valuable analytical insights. The cases presented cover labor, land rights, religious conversion, internal migration, emigration and the African diaspora.
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The contributors look at how Africans negotiated the terms of modernity during the colonial period and are dealing with it in the post-colonial period. They argue that the African experience of modernity is unique and relevant for wider social theory, offering valuable analytical insights. The cases presented cover labor, land rights, religious conversion, internal migration, emigration and the African diaspora.
Introduction : negotiating modernity : from colonialism to globalization11Absent father(s), Garvey's scattered children and the back to Africa movement192The ties that bind : lessons from the historical African diaspora443Denying modernity : the regulation of native labour in colonial Mozambique and its postcolonial aftermath674Mozambican convert miners : missionaries or a herd without a shepherd? : the Anglican mission of Santo Agostinho, Maciene, 1885-1905985Globalization and the political economy of the African migration to the north1356From civil war to floods : implications for internal migration in Gaza province of Mozambique1597Land reform in Kenya : the place of land tribunals in Kombewa1728Protecting refugees in the era of globalization : the challenge of Africa in the new millennium199
