Expectations of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt by James Ferguson

Expectations of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt

James Ferguson

343 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction economics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Once lauded as the wave of the African future, Zambia's economic boom in the 1960s and early 1970s was fueled by the export of copper and other primary materials. Since the mid-1970s, however, the urban economy has rapidly deteriorated, leaving wo...

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