03717nam 2200637 450 991078495120332120231227062734.09789956579143(electronic book)9789956615056(electronic book)9789956558537(paperback)(CKB)2670000000029879(EBL)1134970(OCoLC)743202277(SSID)ssj0000432105(PQKBManifestationID)11267640(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000432105(PQKBWorkID)10477552(PQKB)10732515(OCoLC)646835796(MdBmJHUP)muse21939(Au-PeEL)EBL1134970(CaPaEBR)ebr10333783(CaONFJC)MIL300488(PPN)187340056(MiAaPQ)EBC1134970(EXLCZ)99267000000002987920091123d2009 uy 0engurcnu---unuuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMobile phones the new talking drums of everyday Africa /Mirjam de Bruijn, Francis Nyamnjoh and Inge Brinkman, editorsCameroon Langaa Research & Pub. Common Initiative Group20091 online resource illustrationsAfrican Studies Centre research seriesPrint version: Mobile phones. Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa ; Leiden, the Netherlands : African Studies Centre, ©2009 9956558532 (OCoLC)436111572 Includes bibliographical references.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.We cannot imagine life now without a mobile phone' is a frequent comment when Africans are asked about mobile phones. They have become part and parcel of the communication landscape in many urban and rural areas of Africa and the growth of mobile telephony is amazing: from 1 in 50 people being users in 2000 to 1 in 3 in 2008. Such growth is impressive but it does not even begin to tell us about the many ways in which mobile phones are being appropriated by Africans and how they are transforming or are being transformed by society in Africa. This volume ventures into such appropriation and mutuAfrican Studies Centre research series.Cell phonesAfricaTelecommunicationCell phonesTelecommunication.302.2096De Bruijn MirjamNyamnjoh FrancisBrinkman IngeMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910784951203321Mobile phones3765184UNINA