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Modernization and the crisis of development in Africa : the Nigerian experience

xvi, 372 p. ; 24 cm Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-359) and index Introduction : "experts, " Africanists and Africa's development crisis -- Weberian/modernist explanations of Africa's development crisis -- Postcolonial state, state-centrism and Africa's development -- Scope and organization -- Received wisdom and Africa's development trajectory -- Concept of modernization -- Modernization and the African state -- Modernization and Africa's development trajectory before the 1980s -- Economic crisis, neo-liberalism and the new modernization -- Bringing the state back into the deve…