Transforming innovations in Africa : explorative studies on appro priation in African societies /
Transforming innovations in Africa : explorative studies on appro priation in African societies /
edited by Jan-Bart Gewald, Andre Lel iveld, Iva Pesa.
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.
- ix, 301 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps ; 24 cm.
- African dynamics, vol. 11 1568-1777 ; .
Includes bibliographical references.
Who killed innovation in the Cape wine industr y? : the story of a stuck fermentation c. 1930-1986 / Entrepreneurship, colonial monetary economy and the limits of creat ivity : appropriating trading stores in Northern Namibia, 1925-1980 / Frugal innovation in Africa : tracking Unilever 's washing-powder sachets / Mobile cash for nomadic livestock keepers : the imp act of the mobile phone innovation (M-Pesa) on Maasai pastoralists in K enya / From Gao : Sawaba and the politics of decolonization and insurrection in the Songhay zone of Mali and Niger (1957-1964) / From self-help gro up to water company : the Wandiege community water supply project (Kisu mu, Kenya) / 'It is time to star t my own farm' : the unforeseen effects of two waves of resettlement on household formation in Zimbabwe / 'Cassava is our chief' : negotiating identity, markets and the stat e through cassava in Mwinilunga, Zambia / The soci al cocktail : weddings and the innovative mixing of competences in Bots wana / Of labradors and libraries : the transfor mation of innovation on a farm in Kibale, western Uganda / Engine of change : a social history of the car-mechanics s ector in the Horn of Africa / Water innovations among the Maasai pastoralists of Kenya : the role of outside interventions in the performance of traditional shallow wel ls / Stealing from the railways : blacksmiths, colonialism and innovation in Northern Nigeria / Jan-Bart Gewald, Andre L eliveld & Iva Pesa -- Paul Nugent -- Gregor Dobler -- Cees van Beers, Peter Knorringa & Andr �e Leliveld -- Marcel Rutten & Moses Mwangi -- Klaas van Walraven -- Samuel O. Owuor & Dick Foeken -- Marleen Dekker & Bill Kinsey -- Iva Pe�sa -- Rijk van Dijk -- Jan-Bart Gewald -- Stefano Bellucci & Massimo Zaccaria -- Moses Mwangi & Marcel Rutten -- Shehu Tijjani Yusuf. Introduction : transforming innovations in Africa : explorative stud ies on appropriation in African societies /
9789004245235 (pbk.) 9004245235 (pbk.)
2012-951191
Technological innovations--Africa.
Information technology--Social aspects--Africa.
Africa--Economic conditions-- 21st century.
338.064
Includes bibliographical references.
Who killed innovation in the Cape wine industr y? : the story of a stuck fermentation c. 1930-1986 / Entrepreneurship, colonial monetary economy and the limits of creat ivity : appropriating trading stores in Northern Namibia, 1925-1980 / Frugal innovation in Africa : tracking Unilever 's washing-powder sachets / Mobile cash for nomadic livestock keepers : the imp act of the mobile phone innovation (M-Pesa) on Maasai pastoralists in K enya / From Gao : Sawaba and the politics of decolonization and insurrection in the Songhay zone of Mali and Niger (1957-1964) / From self-help gro up to water company : the Wandiege community water supply project (Kisu mu, Kenya) / 'It is time to star t my own farm' : the unforeseen effects of two waves of resettlement on household formation in Zimbabwe / 'Cassava is our chief' : negotiating identity, markets and the stat e through cassava in Mwinilunga, Zambia / The soci al cocktail : weddings and the innovative mixing of competences in Bots wana / Of labradors and libraries : the transfor mation of innovation on a farm in Kibale, western Uganda / Engine of change : a social history of the car-mechanics s ector in the Horn of Africa / Water innovations among the Maasai pastoralists of Kenya : the role of outside interventions in the performance of traditional shallow wel ls / Stealing from the railways : blacksmiths, colonialism and innovation in Northern Nigeria / Jan-Bart Gewald, Andre L eliveld & Iva Pesa -- Paul Nugent -- Gregor Dobler -- Cees van Beers, Peter Knorringa & Andr �e Leliveld -- Marcel Rutten & Moses Mwangi -- Klaas van Walraven -- Samuel O. Owuor & Dick Foeken -- Marleen Dekker & Bill Kinsey -- Iva Pe�sa -- Rijk van Dijk -- Jan-Bart Gewald -- Stefano Bellucci & Massimo Zaccaria -- Moses Mwangi & Marcel Rutten -- Shehu Tijjani Yusuf. Introduction : transforming innovations in Africa : explorative stud ies on appropriation in African societies /
9789004245235 (pbk.) 9004245235 (pbk.)
2012-951191
Technological innovations--Africa.
Information technology--Social aspects--Africa.
Africa--Economic conditions-- 21st century.
338.064