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The Speed of Change - 9789004177352

Un libro in lingua di Gewald Jan-Bart (EDT) Luning Sabine (EDT) Van Walraven Klaas (EDT) edito da Brill Academic Pub, 2009

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The motorized vehicle is one of the most important factors for historical, economic, and social change in Africa, and yet has not received the scholarly attention it deserves in the field of African studies, argue the editors (all of the U. of Leiden and the African Studies Center, Leiden, the Netherlands), who present 11 papers exploring the relationship between people and motor vehicles in Africa within the wider context of social and transport history, as well as general socioeconomic and cultural change South of the Sahara. Among the topics discussed by the papers are the technological adaptation of imported cars by Ghanaians, the adaptation of Toyota pick-ups into modern "chariots" in Tuareg rebellions, the moral geographies of car travel in Ghana, the role of transport workers in the leftist Sawaba movement of Niger, the entrepreneurial behavior of second-hand car traders in Benin, spiritual and occult practices in motor vehicle travel in Ghana, and the connections between cars and the Highlife musical genre of West Africa. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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