Transforming innovations in Africa : explorative studies on appro priation in African societies - Gewald, Jan-Bart.; Leliveld, Andre; Pesa, Iva. (Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012)
Introduction : transforming innovations in Africa : explorative stud ies on appropriation in African societies / Jan-Bart Gewald, Andre L eliveld & Iva Pesa -- Who killed innovation in the Cape wine industr y? : the story of a stuck fermentation c. 1930-1986 / Paul Nugent -- Entrepreneurship, colonial monetary economy and the limits of creat ivity : appropriating trading stores in Northern Namibia, 1925-1980 / Gregor Dobler -- Frugal innovation in Africa : tracking Unilever 's washing-powder sachets / t The soci al cocktail : weddings and the innovative mixing of competences in Bots wana / Rijk van Dijk -- Of labradors and libraries : the transfor mation of innovation on a farm in Kibale, western Uganda / Jan-Bart Gewald -- Engine of change : a social history of the car-mechanics s ector in the Horn of Africa / Stefano Bellucci & Massimo Zaccaria -- Water innovations among the Maasai pastoralists of Kenya : the role of outside interventions in the performance of traditional shallow wel ls / Moses Mwangi & Marcel Rutten -- Stealing from the railways : blacksmiths, colonialism and innovation in Northern Nigeria / Shehu Tijjani Yusuf.
Includes bibliographical references.
Keywords: Technological innovations -- Africa; Information technology -- Social aspects -- Africa; Africa -- Economic conditions -- 21st century