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Transforming Innovations in Africa: Explorative Studies on Appropriation in African Societies

Transforming Innovations in Africa: Explorative Studies on Appropriation in African Societies

Gewald, Jan-Bart
Leliveld, André
Pesa, Iva

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Business GeneralGeneral SociologyGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9004245235
ISBN13: 9789004245235
Publisher: Brill
Published: Nov 21 2012
Pages: 302
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
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.

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