Explores Africa's hostility toward modernity and how that hostility has impeded economic development and social and political transformation. This book insists that Africa can renew itself only by fully engaging with democracy and capitalism and by mining its untapped intellectual resources.

Ol¿f¿ T¿¿ is Professor of Africana Studies at the Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University. He is author of How Colonialism Preempted Modernity in Africa (IUP, 2010).