SOSC 4510 Chapter Notes - Chapter ---: Modernization Theory, Copperbelt, Age Of Enlightenment
29 Apr 2016
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Introduction to modernization to modernity in geschiere (textbook 3): 1-7. Throughout africa, understandings of modernization and modernity have, in the 21st century, lost much of the innocent optimism that characterized them in the 60s and 70s (right after independence) While some present day africans look for access to modern life through increasingly transitional forms of seeking wealth, others seem to feel trapped in downward spirals of deprivation and despair. Even if grand narratives of modernization and development have lost credibility, among africans as well as those who study africa, notions of being or becoming modern continue o wield tremendous power in everyday african life. Modern became one of those word that y perhaps because its promise of a better life gives an illusory consistency to the often contradictory variety of its contents. People often regard modernity as an abomination as much as a blessing and yearn nostalgically for a vanished past.
