Modernization and the Crisis of Development in Africa: The Nigerian ExperienceThis 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. |
Contents
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 |
Schemes | 199 |
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Modernization and the Crisis of Development in Africa: The Nigerian Experience Jeremiah I. Dibua No preview available - 2022 |
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