TY - BOOK
T1 - Transforming innovations in Africa
T2 - explorative studies on appropriation in African societies
A2 - Gewald, Jan-Bart
A2 - Leliveld, Andre
A2 - Peša, Iva
N1 - Includes bibliographical references
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Innovation
KW - Africa
KW - Subsahara-Africa
KW - Technological innovations
KW - Information technology
KW - Economic history
U2 - 10.1163/9789004245440
DO - 10.1163/9789004245440
M3 - Book
SN - 978-90-04-24544-0
T3 - African dynamics
BT - Transforming innovations in Africa
PB - Brill
CY - Leiden
ER -