Mobile phones : the new talking drums of everyday Africa /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Brinkman, Inge, Nyamnjoh, Francis B., 1961-, Bruijn, Mirjam de, 1962-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Bamenda, Cameroon : Leiden, the Netherlands : Langaa ; African Studies Centre, [2009]
Subjects:	Cell phones > Social aspects > Africa. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

An excerpt from Married but available, a novel / Francis B. Nyamnjoh
Mobile communications and new social spaces in Africa / Mirjam de Bruijn, Francis B. Nyamnjoh, Inge Brinkman
Phoning anthropologists : the mobile phone's (re-)shaping of anthropological research / Lotte Pelckmans
From the elitist to the commonality of voice communication : the history of the telephone in Buea, Cameroon / Walter Gam Nkwi
The mobile phone, 'modernity' and change in Khartoum, Sudan / Inge Brinkman, Mirjam de Bruijn, Hisham Bilal
Trading places in Tanzania : mobile and marginalisation at a time of travel-saving technologies / Thomas Molony
Telephonie mobile : l'appropriation du SMS par une "societe de l'oralite" / Ludovic Kibora
The healer and his phone : medicinal dynamics among the Kapsiki Higi of North Cameroon / Wouter van Beek
The mobility of a mobile phone : examining 'Swahiliness' through an object's biography / Julia Pfaff
Could connectivity replace mobility? : an analysis of Internet cafe use patterns in Accra, Ghana.