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African Motors - Technology, Gender, and the History of Development (Hardcover)
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African Motors - Technology, Gender, and the History of Development (Hardcover)
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In African Motors, Joshua Grace examines how Tanzanian drivers,
mechanics, and passengers reconstituted the automobile into a
uniquely African form between the late 1800s and the early 2000s.
Drawing on hundreds of oral histories, extensive archival research,
and his ethnographic fieldwork as an apprentice in Dar es Salaam's
network of garages, Grace counters the pervasive narratives that
Africa is incompatible with technology and that the African use of
cars is merely an appropriation of technology created elsewhere.
Although automobiles were invented in Europe and introduced as part
of colonial rule, Grace shows how Tanzanians transformed them,
increasingly associating their own car use with maendeleo, the
Kiswahili word for progress or development. Focusing on the
formation of masculinities based in automotive cultures, Grace also
outlines the process through which African men remade themselves
and their communities by adapting technological objects and systems
for local purposes. Ultimately, African Motors is an
African-centered story of development featuring everyday examples
of Africans forging both individual and collective cultures of
social and technological wellbeing through movement, making, and
repair.
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