Africa and Globalization

Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair Professor in the Humanities and a Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.Kenneth Kalu is Assistant Professor at the Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada.

• 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.