Who owns the problem? : Africa and the struggle for agency / Pius Adesanmi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adesanmi, Pius, author.

Contributor:

Falola, Toyin, writer of foreword.

Harrow, Kenneth W., writer of foreword.

JSTOR (Online Service)

Series:

African humanities and the arts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature and society--Africa.

Literature and society.

Intellectual life.

Social conditions.

Africa.

Literature and society--Nigeria.

Africa--Social conditions--21st century.

Nigeria--Social conditions--21st century.

Nigeria.

Africa--Intellectual life--21st century.

Nigeria--Intellectual life--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvi, 181 pages.)

Place of Publication:

East Lansing, Michigan : Michigan State University Press, [2020]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Foreword: More Than Just a Name / by Toyin Falola

Foreword / by Kenneth W. Harrow

Preface. Form as Resistance: The Story of This Book

#WhoOwnsTheProblem?

Culture, Development, and Other Annoyances

For Whom Is Africa Rising?

Africa Is People, Nigeria Is Nigerians: Provocations on Post-mendicant Economies

The Disappeared African Roots of Emma Watson's UN Feminism

The Africa Just Outside of Your Hilton Hotel Window

Capitalism and Memory: Of Golf Courses and Massage Parlors in Badagry, Nigeria

Ode to the Bottle-For Ken Harrow who Laughed

Aso Ebi on my Mind

Ara Eko, Ara Oke: Lagos, Culture, and the Rest of Us

A Race through Race in Missouri

Dowry: Managing Africa's Many Lovers

Caribbean Self, African Selfie

Face Me, I Book You: Writing Africa's Agency in the Age of the Netizen

What Does (Nigerian) Literature Secure?

Post-centenary Nigeria: New Literatures, New Leaders, New Nation

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781609176303

1609176308

Publisher Number:

40029749805

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.