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The Social Life of Connectivity in Africa 2012th Edition
Author(s): Mirjam de Bruijn (Author), Rijk van Dijk (Author), M. de Bruijn (Editor), R. van Dijk (Editor)
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date: 5 Dec. 2012
- Edition: 2012th
- Language: English
- Print length: 310 pages
- ISBN-10: 1137278013
- ISBN-13: 9781137278012
Book Description
The rapid increase in adoption of modern ‘connective’ technologies like the mobile phone has reshaped the social landscape of Africa. This book examines the myriad possibilities that the post-global moment offers African societies to develop and to relate, offering profound new insights into the processes of globalization.
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ASTRID BOCHOW Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany ANGÉLIQUE BOS Leiden University, the Netherlands BEN COUSINS University of the Western Cape, South Africa JAN-BART GEWALD DANIELLE DE LAME Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium MAYKE KAAG African Studies Centre, Leiden/Utrecht University, the Netherlands LINDA VAN DE KAMP VU University Amsterdam/African Studies Centre, Leiden, the Netherlands WALTER GAN NKWI University of Leiden, the Netherlands FRANCIS B. NYAMNJOH University of Cape Town, South Africa OKA OBONO University of Ibadan, Nigeria NEIL PARSONS University of Botswana MARJA SPIERENBURG VU University Amsterdam/University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
