Transforming innovations in Africa : : explorative studies on appropriation in African societies / / edited by Jan-Bart Gewald, Andre Leliveld, Iva Pesa.

• TeilnehmendeR: Gewald, Jan-Bart.; Leliveld, Andre.; Pesa, Iva.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: African Dynamics 11.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (313 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; 1 Introduction: Transforming innovations in Africa; explorative studies on appropriation in African societies /; 2 Who killed innovation in the Cape wine industry? The story of a stuck fermentation c. 1930-1986 /; 3 Entrepreneurship, colonial monetary economy and the limits of creativity: Appropriating trading stores in Northern Namibia, 1925-1980 /; 4 Frugal innovation in Africa: Tracking Unilever’s washing-powder sachets /; 5 Mobile cash for nomadic livestock keepers: The impact of the mobile phone innovation (M-Pesa) on Maasai pastoralists in Kenya /; 6 From Gao: Sawaba and the politics of decolonization and insurrection in the Songhay Zone of Mali and Niger (1957-1964) /; 7 From self-help group to water company: The Wandiege Community Water Supply Project (Kisumu, Kenya) /; 8 ‘It is time to start my own farm’: The unforeseen effects of two waves of resettlement on household formation in Zimbabwe /; 9 ‘Cassava is our chief’: Negotiating identity, markets and the state through cassava in Mwinilunga, Zambia /; 10 The social cocktail: Weddings and the innovative mixing of competences in Botswana /; 11 Of labradors and libraries: The transformation of innovation on a farm in Kibale, western Uganda /; 12 Engine of change: A social history of the car-mechanics sector in the Horn of Africa /; 13 Water innovations among the Maasai pastoralists of Kenya: The role of outside interventions in the performance of traditional shallow wells /; 14 Stealing from the railways: Blacksmiths, colonialism and innovation in Northern Nigeria /; List of authors.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
• ISBN: 1283855186; 9004245448
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Jan-Bart Gewald, Andre Leliveld, Iva Pesa.

Africa abounds with examples of material and immaterial innovations that were envisaged, developed and designed elsewhere yet came to be innovatively and sometimes unexpectedly transformed in Africa. The authors in this volume explore how external innovations (products, technologies, services, institutions and processes) have been appropriated in African societies in order to be acceptable and relevant to local conditions, expectations and demands. Written from different disciplinary perspectives, the chapters demonstrate the depth and richness of innovation in Africa with, in some cases, surprising outcomes. The case studies presented are on subjects as diverse as the wine industry, trading stores, land reforms, washing powder, M-Pesa, cassava, weddings, international borders, guest houses, urban water supply, car technology, shallow wells, and railways and blacksmithing.