Decoding Global Capitalism on One African Street

A moment on the street in Addis Ababa.

A moment on the street in Addis Ababa. Steve Pauslon (TTBOOK)

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Ghanaian post-colonial theorist Ato Quayson writes and thinks a lot about globalization, diaspora and transnationalism. Because he’s a literary scholar, he decided to "read" a single street — specifically, Oxford Street in Accra — as a study of contemporary urban Africa.