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African miracle, African mirage : transnational politics and the paradox of modernization in Ivory Coast / Abou B. Bamba.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: New African histories seriesPublisher: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2016]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780821445822
  • 0821445820
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 330.9666805 23
LOC classification:
  • HC1025
Online resources:
Contents:
Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgments; Selected Abbreviations; Introduction; Part 1 The Postwar Years; 1-Becoming an Attractive Colony; 2-Triangulating Colonial Modernization; Part 2 The Decade of Development; 3-(Re)Framing Postcolonial Development; 4- Energizing the Economic Miracle; 5- Tapping the Riches of a ""Backward"" Region; Part 3 The Fate of Modernization; 6- Investing in Modernization's Last Frontier; 7- Crushing Dreams of Modernity; Conclusion: A Return to the Saga of an African Miracle; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Summary: Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Ivory Coast was touted as an African miracle, a poster child for modernization and the ways that Western aid and multinational corporations would develop the continent.
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Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgments; Selected Abbreviations; Introduction; Part 1 The Postwar Years; 1-Becoming an Attractive Colony; 2-Triangulating Colonial Modernization; Part 2 The Decade of Development; 3-(Re)Framing Postcolonial Development; 4- Energizing the Economic Miracle; 5- Tapping the Riches of a ""Backward"" Region; Part 3 The Fate of Modernization; 6- Investing in Modernization's Last Frontier; 7- Crushing Dreams of Modernity; Conclusion: A Return to the Saga of an African Miracle; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Ivory Coast was touted as an African miracle, a poster child for modernization and the ways that Western aid and multinational corporations would develop the continent.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-290) and index.

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