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African Postcolonial Modernity

Informal Subjectivities and the Democratic Consensus

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  • © 2014

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  1. Sanya Osha
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Part of the book series: African Histories and Modernities (AHAM)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. The Polis: From Greece to an African Athens

    • Sanya Osha
    Pages 1-15

  3. The Order/Other of Political Culture

    • Sanya Osha
    Pages 17-36

  4. Urbanscapes

    • Sanya Osha
    Pages 37-69

  5. Youth, Violence, and the Production of Knowledge

    • Sanya Osha
    Pages 71-97

  6. (Mis)Understanding Mbekism

    • Sanya Osha
    Pages 99-113

  7. Global Activism and Discourses of Dispossession in South Africa

    • Sanya Osha
    Pages 115-151

  8. African Sexualities I

    • Sanya Osha
    Pages 153-179

  9. African Sexualities II

    • Sanya Osha
    Pages 181-199

  10. Conclusion Yearnings of Modernity

    • Sanya Osha
    Pages 201-208

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 209-262
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About this book

African cultures and politics remain significantly affected by precolonial and postcolonial configurations of modernity, as well as hegemonic global systems. This project explores Africa's conversation with itself and the rest of the world, critiquing universalist notions of democratization.

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'This book traverses numerous aspects of contemporary African modernity, institution-building processes and existence. The travails of current Nigerian democracy are addressed just at its knowledge-generating tertiary institutions are critiqued. In addition, the author explores the singular nature and rogue dynamics of African cities how they are continually shaped and propelled by local imperatives and global configurations. This makes them resilient and somewhat strangely survivalist in character even when besieged by extremely dire circumstances. This is a major contribution by a prominent voice grounded on the continent' - Francis B. Nyamnjoh, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Cape Town, South Africa

About the author

Sanya Osha holds a PhD in Philosophy and has published extensively on anthropology, cultural studies, knowledge systems of Africa, the politics of the West African region, and the sociopolitical and cultural realities of Southern Africa. He joined the Institute for Economic Research on Innovation (IERI), Tshwane University of Technology as a research fellow in 2009.

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