Modernization and the crisis of development in Africa : the Nigerian experience / Jeremiah I. Dibua.
Modernization and the crisis of development in Africa : the Nigerian experience / Jeremiah I. Dibua.
Modernization and the crisis of development in Africa : the Nigerian experience / Jeremiah I. Dibua.
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Aldershot : Ashgate, 2006.
Date
2006.
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N338.9669/ 10
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English
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xvi, 372 p. ; 24 cm.
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Introduction : "experts," Africanists and Africa's development crisis -- Weberian/modernist explanations of Africa's development crisis -- Postcolonial state, state-centrism and Africa's development -- Scope and organization -- Received wisdom and Africa's development trajectory -- Concept of modern...
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Aldershot : Ashgate, 2006.
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England
Date Published
2006.
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"Jeremiah I. Dibua challenges prevailing notions of Africa's development crisis by drawing attention to the role of modernization as a way of understanding the nature and dynamics of the crisis and how to overcome the problem of underdevelopment. He specifically focuses on Nigeria as it exemplifies the crisis of underdevelopment in the continent an...
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Modernization and the crisis of development in Africa : the Nigerian experience / Jeremiah I. Dibua.
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Interdisciplinary research series in ethnic, gender and class relations.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-359) and index.
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N338.9669/ 10
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0754642283 (hbk.) :
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338.9669
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