Negotiating Modernity: Africa’s Ambivalent Experience
Edited by Elísio Salvado Macamo
Published 2005; 256 pages; ISBN: 2-86978-147-4
Africa in the New Millennium Series
Africa has been through a particularly ambivalent experience of modernity. Previous research has tended to emphasize its alien nature in Africa and how it has been resisted. This book seeks to show how this tension and the impulse to modernity have contributed to changing
African society over the past one hundred years. 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 labour,
land rights, religious conversion, internal migration, emigration and the African diaspora.
Elísio Macamo is the Chair of Development Sociology at the University of Bayreuth, and a guest lecturer in the Faculty of Letters and Social Sciences at Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo. He is author of A leitura
sociólogica – Um manual introdutório (Imprensa Universitária) and coeditor, with Lars Clausen and Elke Geenen, of Entsetzliche soziale Prozesse. Theoretische und empirische Annährungen (Lit Verlag,); and, with Yehuda Elkana, Ivan Krastev and Shalini Randeria, of Unraveling Ties: From Social Cohesion to New Practices of Connectedness (Campus). His current
research is on local perceptions of disaster in Mozambique.
The Contributors: Elísio Macamo, Julani Niaah, Cassandra R. Veney, Alda Romão Saúte, Francis Njubi Nesbitt, Ines Macamo Raimundo, Samwel Ong’wen Okuro, and Ekuru Aukot
Contents
Elísio Macamo
PA RT I From Colonialism…
Absent Father(s), Garvey’s Scattered Children and the Back to Africa Movement
Jalani A. Niaah
The Ties that Bind: Lessons from the Historical African Diaspora
Cassandra R. Veney
Denying Modernity: The Regulation of Native Labour in Colonial Mozambique and its Postcolonial Aftermath
Elísio Macamo
Mozambican Convert Miners: A Herd Without a Shepherd? The Anglican Mission of Santo Agostinho, Maciene,1885-1905
Alda Romão Saúte
PA RT II …to Globalization
Globalization and the Political Economy of the African Migration to the North
Francis Njubi Nesbitt
From Civil War to Floods: Implications for Internal Migration in Gaza Province of Mozambique
Inês Macamo Raimundo
Land Reform in Kenya: The Place of Land Tribunals in Kombewa
Samwel Ong’wen Okuro
Protecting Refugees in the Era of Globalization: The Challenge of Africa in the New Millennium
Ekuru Aukot
About the Contributors
Index
HB ISBN 1 84277 676 2 £ 65.00 $85.00
PB ISBN 2-86978-147-4 $20.00 (Africa); £18.95 $29.95 (Elsewhere)
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