Screen LibraryTransforming innovations in Africa : explorative studies on appropriation in African societies /
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| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
African dynamics,
vol. 11 |
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| Carrier Form: | ix, 301 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: |
9789004245235 (pbk.) : 9004245235 (pbk.) |
| Index Number: | HC800 |
| CLC: | F140.43 |
| Call Number: | F140.43/T772 |
| Contents: |
Who killed innovation in the Cape wine industry? : the story of a stuck fermentation c. 1930-1986 / Entrepreneurship, colonial monetary economy and the limits of creativity : 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 impact of the mobile phone innovation (M-Pesa) on Maasai pastoralists in Kenya / From Gao : Sawaba and the politics of decolonization and insurrection in the Songhay zone of Mali and Niger (1957-1964) / From self-help group to water company : the Wandiege community water supply project (Kisumu, Kenya) / 'It is time to start 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 state through cassava in Mwinilunga, Zambia / The social cocktail : weddings and the innovative mixing of competences in Botswana / Of labradors and libraries : the transformation of innovation on a farm in Kibale, western Uganda / Engine of change : a social history of the car-mechanics sector in the Horn of Africa / Water innovations among the Maasai pastoralists of Kenya : the role of outside interventions in the performance of traditional shallow wells / Stealing from the railways : blacksmiths, colonialism and innovation in Northern Nigeria / |