BETWEEN MODERNITY AND TRADITION: AFRICAN IDENTITY IN A STATE OF TRANSITION

Tradition and modernity have been most of the time treated in scholarly debates as two diametrically-opposed apparatus of African identity. This study illustrates that contrary to this widely disseminated belief, tradition and modernity are two cronies that are simultaneously counterproductive an...

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Published in:	University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series
Main Author:	Fouad Mami
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Bucharest University Press 2011-04-01
Subjects:	african tradition traditionality european modernity historicity positive cultural transformation
Online Access:	https://ubr.rev.unibuc.ro//wp-content/uploads/2012/08/FouadMami.pdf