LEADER 04258nam 2200661 450 001 9910727269203321 005 20230126215238.0 010 $a0-226-47139-X 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226471426 035 $a(CKB)3710000001386361 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4865625 035 $a(DE-B1597)550287 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226471426 035 $a(OCoLC)988326394 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001386361 100 $a20170622h20172017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aMatatu $ea history of popular transportation in Nairobi /$fKenda Mutongi 210 1$aChicago, Illinois ;$aLondon, [England] :$cThe University of Chicago Press,$d2017. 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (350 pages) $cillustrations, maps 311 $a0-226-13086-X 311 $a0-226-47142-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPART ONE. Background -- $tINTRODUCTION. Matatu -- $tONE. ?The Only Way to Get There Was on Foot? -- $tPART TWO. Moving People, Building the Nation, 1960?73 -- $tTWO. ?It Is a Difficult System to Beat? -- $tTHREE. ?We Are Making a Living by Constitutional Means? -- $tPART THREE. Deregulation, 1973? 84 -- $tFOUR. Kenyatta?s Decree, 1973 -- $tFIVE. ?Jump In, Squeeze, Jump Out?Quickly!? -- $tPART FOUR. Government Regulation, 1984? 88 -- $tSIX. The Matatu Bill of 1984 -- $tSEVEN. ?Only Those Who Are Afraid Use Force? -- $tPART FIVE. Organized Crime? 1988?2014 -- $tEIGHT. KANU Youth Wingers -- $tNINE. Mungiki: Fighting a Phantom? -- $tPART SIX. Generation Matatu, Politics, and Popular Culture, 1990? 2014 -- $tTEN. Music, Politics, and Profit -- $tELEVEN. ?Pimp? My Ride -- $tPART SEVEN. Self- Regulation, 2003? 14 -- $tTWELVE. The Michuki Rules -- $tCONCLUSION. Making It in Nairobi -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tAbbreviations -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aDrive the streets of Nairobi, and you are sure to see many matatus?colorful minibuses that transport huge numbers of people around the city. Once ramshackle affairs held together with duct tape and wire, matatus today are name-brand vehicles maxed out with aftermarket detailing. They can be stately black or extravagantly colored, sporting names, slogans, or entire tableaus, with airbrushed portraits of everyone from Kanye West to Barack Obama. In this richly interdisciplinary book, Kenda Mutongi explores the history of the matatu from the 1960s to the present. As Mutongi shows, matatus offer a window onto the socioeconomic and political conditions of late-twentieth-century Africa. In their diversity of idiosyncratic designs, they reflect multiple and divergent aspects of Kenyan life?including, for example, rapid urbanization, organized crime, entrepreneurship, social insecurity, the transition to democracy, and popular culture?at once embodying Kenya?s staggering social problems as well as the bright promises of its future. Offering a shining model of interdisciplinary analysis, Mutongi mixes historical, ethnographic, literary, linguistic, and economic approaches to tell the story of the matatu and explore the entrepreneurial aesthetics of the postcolonial world. 606 $aTransportation$zKenya$zNairobi 606 $aMinibuses$zKenya$zNairobi 606 $aLocal transit$zKenya$zNairobi 606 $aUrban transportation policy$zKenya$zNairobi 610 $aKenya's political economy. 610 $aNairobi. 610 $aObama. 610 $aUrban history. 610 $ahistorical ethnography. 610 $aindigenous entrepreneurship. 610 $amatatu. 610 $aorganized crime. 610 $asocial media. 610 $atransportation history. 615 0$aTransportation 615 0$aMinibuses 615 0$aLocal transit 615 0$aUrban transportation policy 676 $a388.4096762/5 686 $aLB 85546$2rvk 700 $aMutongi$b Kenda$01098243 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910727269203321 996 $aMatatu$93382061 997 $aUNINA