Transforming innovations in Africa : : explorative studies on appropriation in African societies / / 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, insti...
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Transforming innovations in Africa : explorative studies on appropriation in African societies / edited by Jan-Bart Gewald, Andre Leliveld, Iva Pesa. 1st ed. Leiden ; Boston, MA : Brill, 2012. 1 online resource (313 p.) text txt computer c online resource cr African dynamics ; 11 Description based upon print version of record. English Preliminary Material -- 1 Introduction: Transforming innovations in Africa; explorative studies on appropriation in African societies / Jan-Bart Gewald , André Leliveld and Iva Peša -- 2 Who killed innovation in the Cape wine industry? The story of a stuck fermentation c. 1930-1986 / Paul Nugent -- 3 Entrepreneurship, colonial monetary economy and the limits of creativity: Appropriating trading stores in Northern Namibia, 1925-1980 / Gregor Dobler -- 4 Frugal innovation in Africa: Tracking Unilever’s washing-powder sachets / Cees van Beers , Peter Knorringa and André Leliveld -- 5 Mobile cash for nomadic livestock keepers: The impact of the mobile phone innovation (M-Pesa) on Maasai pastoralists in Kenya / Marcel Rutten and Moses Mwangi -- 6 From Gao: Sawaba and the politics of decolonization and insurrection in the Songhay Zone of Mali and Niger (1957-1964) / Klaas van Walraven -- 7 From self-help group to water company: The Wandiege Community Water Supply Project (Kisumu, Kenya) / Samuel O. Owuor and Dick Foeken -- 8 ‘It is time to start my own farm’: The unforeseen effects of two waves of resettlement on household formation in Zimbabwe / Marleen Dekker and Bill Kinsey -- 9 ‘Cassava is our chief’: Negotiating identity, markets and the state through cassava in Mwinilunga, Zambia / Iva Peša -- 10 The social cocktail: Weddings and the innovative mixing of competences in Botswana / Rijk van Dijk -- 11 Of labradors and libraries: The transformation of innovation on a farm in Kibale, western Uganda / Jan-Bart Gewald -- 12 Engine of change: A social history of the car-mechanics sector in the Horn of Africa / Stefano Bellucci and Massimo Zaccaria -- 13 Water innovations among the Maasai pastoralists of Kenya: The role of outside interventions in the performance of traditional shallow wells / Moses Mwangi and Marcel Rutten -- 14 Stealing from the railways: Blacksmiths, colonialism and innovation in Northern Nigeria / Shehu Tijjani Yusuf -- List of authors. 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. Includes bibliographical references. Technological innovations Africa. Inventions Africa. Africa Economic conditions 21st century. 2000 - 2099 fast Gewald, Jan-Bart. Leliveld, Andre. Pesa, Iva. 90-04-24523-5 African Dynamics 11. |
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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. |
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