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Mobile phones : the new talking drums of everyday Africa / Mirjam de Bruijn, Francis Nyamnjoh and Inge Brinkman, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- African Studies Centre research series.
- Langaa & African Studies Centre
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cell phones--Africa.
- Cell phones.
- Telecommunication.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cameroon : Langaa Research & Pub. Common Initiative Group, 2009.
- Summary:
- We cannot imagine life now without a mobile phone' is a frequent comment when Africans are asked about mobile phones. They have become part and parcel of the communication landscape in many urban and rural areas of Africa and the growth of mobile telephony is amazing: from 1 in 50 people being users in 2000 to 1 in 3 in 2008. Such growth is impressive but it does not even begin to tell us about the many ways in which mobile phones are being appropriated by Africans and how they are transforming or are being transformed by society in Africa. This volume ventures into such appropriation and mutu
- Contents:
- An excerpt from Married but available, a novel / Francis B. Nyamnjoh
- Mobile communications and new social spaces in Africa / Mirjam de Bruijn, Francis B. Nyamnjoh, Inge Brinkman
- Phoning anthropologists : the mobile phone's (re-)shaping of anthropological research / Lotte Pelckmans
- From the elitist to the commonality of voice communication : the history of the telephone in Buea, Cameroon / Walter Gam Nkwi
- The mobile phone, 'modernity' and change in Khartoum, Sudan / Inge Brinkman, Mirjam de Bruijn, Hisham Bilal
- Trading places in Tanzania : mobile and marginalisation at a time of travel-saving technologies / Thomas Molony
- Telephonie mobile : l'appropriation du SMS par une "societe de l'oralite" / Ludovic Kibora
- The healer and his phone : medicinal dynamics among the Kapsiki Higi of North Cameroon / Wouter van Beek
- The mobility of a mobile phone : examining 'Swahiliness' through an object's biography / Julia Pfaff
- Could connectivity replace mobility? : an analysis of Internet cafe use patterns in Accra, Ghana.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Mobile phones.
- ISBN:
- 9789956579143
- 9789956615056
- OCLC:
- 743202277
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