Evolving Toward Africa

In point of fact, modernity doesn't have a single northern source. It isn't a European or American monologue. It's a dance and a dialogue. As Jean and John Comaroff observe in their Theory from the South, even during the age of imperialism, “colonies were critical sources of value and innovation for the modern nation-states of the north.” The frontier between Europe and its colonies “fostered conjunctions of Western and non-Western desires, conventions, and practices.”