Modernization and the Crisis of Development in Africa: The Nigerian Experience

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2006 - 372 من الصفحات
This examination of the impact of modernisation on Africa's development uses Nigeria as a case study. It aims to show the central role that the modernisation paradigm played in creating the crisis of development by analysing it from a theoretical and empirical approach. Each chapter includes the issues of state, culture and gender.

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المحتوى

Experts Africanists and Africas Development Crisis
1
Received Wisdom and Africas Development Trajectory
17
Bringing the State Back into the Development Process
42
Colonial Antecedents
53
The First Democratic Experiment 19601966
90
The Second Democratic Experiment 19791983
103
Technology Transfer and the Crisis of Industrialization
143
The Dialectics of Agricultural Transformation
173
Oil and Economic Development Strategies 19701986
215
Economic Crisis and Structural Adjustment Program
249
State Youth and Womens Movements 19861998
281
Credible Transition to Civil Rule 19981999
293
Conclusion
308
Conclusion
315
Index
361
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Schemes
199

طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات

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نبذة عن المؤلف (2006)

Jeremiah I. Dibua is Professor of History at Morgan State University, USA.

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