Side@Ways : Mobile margins and the dynamics of communication in Africa / Edited by Mirjam de Bruijin, Inge Brickman and Francis Nyamnjoh.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nyamnjoh, Francis.

de Bruijn, Mirjam.

Brickman, Inge.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mobile communication systems--Africa.

Mobile communication systems.

Cell phone systems.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (212 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Sideways

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Langaa RPCIG, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Marginality does not mean isolation. In Africa where people are permanently on the move in search, inter alia, of a ëbetter elsewhereí, marginality means disconnection to obvious possibilities and the invisibility of the myriad connections that make life possible for the ordinarily sidestepped. This book is about the workings of networks of the mobile in Africa, a continent usually associated with the ëglobal shadowsí of the world. How do changes in the possibilities for communication, with the recent hype of mobile technology, influence the social and economic dynamics in Africaís mobile margins? To what extent is the freedom associated with new Information and Communication Technologies reality or disillusion for people dwelling in the margins? Are ordinary Africans increasingly Side@Ways? How social are these emergent Side@Ways? Contributions to answering these and related questions are harvested from ethnographic insights by team members of the WOTRO funded ëMobile Africa revisitedí research programme hosted by the African Studies Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands.

Contents:

Introduction : mobile margins and the dynamics of communication / Mirjam de Bruijn, Inge Brinkman and Francis Nyamnjoh

Mobilite et moyens de communication au Guera / Djimet Seli

- La connexion des marges: Marginalite politique et technologie de desenclavement en Basse Casamance (Sud du Senegal) / Fatima Diallo

- 'Angola my country, Cape Town my home' : a young migrant's journey of social becoming and belonging / Imke Gooskens

Transnational migration and marginality : Nigerian migrants in Anglophone Cameroon / Tangie Nsoh Fonchingong

Les femmes hadjaraye du Guera à l'ecole d'alphabetisation / Khalil Alio

From foot messengers to cell phones : communication in Kom, Cameroon, c. 1916-1998 / Walter Gam Nkwi

Grandeur ou miseres des cabines telephoniques privees et publiques au Mali / Naffet Keïta

Information & communication technology and its impact on transnational migration : the case of Senegalese boat migrants / Henrietta Nyamnjoh

Identities of place : mobile naming practices and social landscapes in Sudan / Siri Lamoureux.

Notes:

At head of title: Langaa & African Studies Centre.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9789956728060

9956728063

9789956728435

9956728438

OCLC:

836400562