LEADER 04921nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910786574203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-85518-6 010 $a90-04-24544-8 024 7 $a10.1163/9789004245440 035 $a(CKB)2670000000309503 035 $a(EBL)1081637 035 $a(OCoLC)820814105 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000870386 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11454941 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000870386 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10818486 035 $a(PQKB)10007043 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1081637 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789004245440 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1081637 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10631821 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL416768 035 $a(PPN)170756319 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000309503 100 $a20121009d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aTransforming innovations in Africa$b[electronic resource] $eexplorative studies on appropriation in African societies /$fedited by Jan-Bart Gewald, Andre Leliveld, Iva Pesa 210 $aLeiden ;$aBoston, MA $cBrill$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (313 p.) 225 0 $aAfrican dynamics ;$v11 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-04-24523-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $tPreliminary Material -- $t1 Introduction: Transforming innovations in Africa; explorative studies on appropriation in African societies /$rJan-Bart Gewald , André Leliveld and Iva Pe?a -- $t2 Who killed innovation in the Cape wine industry? The story of a stuck fermentation c. 1930-1986 /$rPaul Nugent -- $t3 Entrepreneurship, colonial monetary economy and the limits of creativity: Appropriating trading stores in Northern Namibia, 1925-1980 /$rGregor Dobler -- $t4 Frugal innovation in Africa: Tracking Unilever?s washing-powder sachets /$rCees van Beers , Peter Knorringa and André Leliveld -- $t5 Mobile cash for nomadic livestock keepers: The impact of the mobile phone innovation (M-Pesa) on Maasai pastoralists in Kenya /$rMarcel Rutten and Moses Mwangi -- $t6 From Gao: Sawaba and the politics of decolonization and insurrection in the Songhay Zone of Mali and Niger (1957-1964) /$rKlaas van Walraven -- $t7 From self-help group to water company: The Wandiege Community Water Supply Project (Kisumu, Kenya) /$rSamuel O. Owuor and Dick Foeken -- $t8 ?It is time to start my own farm?: The unforeseen effects of two waves of resettlement on household formation in Zimbabwe /$rMarleen Dekker and Bill Kinsey -- $t9 ?Cassava is our chief?: Negotiating identity, markets and the state through cassava in Mwinilunga, Zambia /$rIva Pe?a -- $t10 The social cocktail: Weddings and the innovative mixing of competences in Botswana /$rRijk van Dijk -- $t11 Of labradors and libraries: The transformation of innovation on a farm in Kibale, western Uganda /$rJan-Bart Gewald -- $t12 Engine of change: A social history of the car-mechanics sector in the Horn of Africa /$rStefano Bellucci and Massimo Zaccaria -- $t13 Water innovations among the Maasai pastoralists of Kenya: The role of outside interventions in the performance of traditional shallow wells /$rMoses Mwangi and Marcel Rutten -- $t14 Stealing from the railways: Blacksmiths, colonialism and innovation in Northern Nigeria /$rShehu Tijjani Yusuf -- $tList of authors. 330 $aAfrica abounds with examples of material and immaterial innovations that were envisaged, developed and designed elsewhere yet came to be innovatively and sometimes unexpectedly transformed in Africa. The authors in this volume explore how external innovations (products, technologies, services, institutions and processes) have been appropriated in African societies in order to be acceptable and relevant to local conditions, expectations and demands. Written from different disciplinary perspectives, the chapters demonstrate the depth and richness of innovation in Africa with, in some cases, surprising outcomes. The case studies presented are on subjects as diverse as the wine industry, trading stores, land reforms, washing powder, M-Pesa, cassava, weddings, international borders, guest houses, urban water supply, car technology, shallow wells, and railways and blacksmithing. 410 0$aAfrican Dynamics$v11. 606 $aTechnological innovations$zAfrica 606 $aInventions$zAfrica 607 $aAfrica$xEconomic conditions$y21st century 615 0$aTechnological innovations 615 0$aInventions 676 $a658.11 701 $aGewald$b Jan-Bart$0692713 701 $aLeliveld$b Andre$01513114 701 $aPesa$b Iva$0946174 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786574203321 996 $aTransforming innovations in Africa$93747360 997 $aUNINA