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Ghana on the Go - African Mobility in the Age of Motor Transportation (Hardcover)
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Ghana on the Go - African Mobility in the Age of Motor Transportation (Hardcover)
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As early as the 1910s, African drivers in colonial Ghana understood
the possibilities that using imported motor transport could further
the social and economic agendas of a diverse array of local agents,
including chiefs, farmers, traders, fishermen, and urban workers.
Jennifer Hart's powerful narrative of auto-mobility shows how
drivers built on old trade routes to increase the speed and scale
of motorized travel. Hart reveals that new forms of labor
migration, economic enterprise, cultural production, and social
practice were defined by autonomy and mobility and thus shaped the
practices and values that formed the foundations of Ghanaian
society today. Focusing on the everyday lives of individuals who
participated in this century of social, cultural, and technological
change, Hart comes to a more sensitive understanding of the ways in
which these individuals made new technology meaningful to their
local communities and associated it with their future aspirations.
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