Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgments; Selected Abbreviations; Introduction; Part 1 The Postwar Years; 1-Becoming an Attractive Colony; 2-Triangulating Colonial Modernization; Part 2 The Decade of Development; 3-(Re)Framing Postcolonial Development; 4- Energizing the Economic Miracle; 5- Tapping the Riches of a ""Backward"" Region; Part 3 The Fate of Modernization; 6- Investing in Modernization's Last Frontier; 7- Crushing Dreams of Modernity; Conclusion: A Return to the Saga of an African Miracle; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Ivory Coast was touted as an African miracle, a poster child for modernization and the ways that Western aid and multinational corporations would develop the continent
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-290) and index
