The Speed of Change Motor Vehicles and People in Africa 1890 2000 Afrika Studiecentrum Series 13 13th Edition by Jan-Bart Gewald, Sabine Lunin, Klaas Van Walraven ISBN 978-9004177352 9004177353

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ISBN 10: 9004177353

ISBN 13:  978-9004177352

Author: Jan-Bart Gewald, Sabine Lunin, Klaas Van Walraven

In the early 1900s the motor-vehicle (car, bus, lorry or motor-cycle) was introduced in sub-Saharan Africa This edited volume of eleven contributions by historians, anthropologists, social and political scientists explores aspects of the social history and anthropology of the motor-vehicle in Africa.

Table of contents: 

PART I: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES

1 PEOPLE, MINES AND CARS: TOWARDS A REVISION OF ZAMBIAN HISTORY, 1890-1930
Jan-Bart Gewald

2 MOTORCARS AND MODERNITY: PINING FOR PROGRESS IN PORTUGUESE GUINEA, 1915-1945
Philip J Havik

3 VEHICLE OF SEDITION: THE ROLE OF TRANSPORT WORKERS IN SAWABA’S REBELLION IN NIGER, 1954-1966
Klaas van Walraven

PART II: ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES

4 HUG ME, HOLD ME TIGHT! THE EVOLUTION OF PASSENGER TRANSPORT IN LUANDA AND HUAMBO (ANGOLA), 1975-2000
Carlos M. Lopes

5 STRIKING GOLD IN COTONOU? THREE CASES OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE EURO-WEST AFRICAN SECOND-HAND CAR TRADE IN BENIN
Joost Beuving

PART III: ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES

6 THE ART OF TRUCK MODDING ON THE NILE (SUDAN): AN ATTEMPT TO TRACE CREATIVITY
Kurt Beck

7 THE HILUX AND THE ‘BODY THROWER’: KHAT TRANSPORTERS IN KENYA
Neil Carrier

8 MODERN CHARIOTS: SPEED AND MOBILITY IN CONTEMPORARY ‘SMALL’ WARS IN THE SAHARA
Georg Klute

9 RELIGION ON THE ROAD: THE SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE OF ROAD TRAVEL IN GHANA
Gabriel Klaeger

10 A CHIEF’S FATAL CAR ACCIDENT: POLITICAL HISTORY AND MORAL GEOGRAPHY IN BURKINA FASO
Sabine Luning

11 ‘ANYWAY!’: LORRY INSCRIPTIONS IN GHANA
Sjaak van der Geest

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