Africa and Globalization: Challenges of Governance and Creativity

1. Introduction: Africa in a Globalized World
I. Africa's Adaptation to Globalization
2. The Rediscovery of Africa
3. Globalization and the Creative Space in Africa: Implications for Governance and Development
4. Postcolonial Africa's Development Trajectories
5. Collective Social Action: Enlightenment Ethic and the Rise of Modern Individualism
6. Same Migrants, Two Business Models: Culture-centered and Non-traditional Businesses Established by Ethiopians and Eritreans in Washington D.C.
7. Making Sense of South Africa's Soft Power: Projections, Prospects, and Possibilities
II. Governance and Creativity
8. Developmental Strategies and Cultural Dynamics in Rural Nigeria
9. The Impossible Craft of Nation-Building in Postcolonial Cameroon
10. Creativity and New Technologies: Piracy, Politics, and the Business of Cultural Production in Nigeria
11. Igbo Community Policing and its Relevance for Contemporary Nigeria
12. "Come and Chop": Representations of the Parliamentarian in Ola Rotimi's If and Emeka Nwabueze's A Parliament of Vultures