Transforming innovations in Africa: explorative studies on appropriation in African societies

TitleTransforming innovations in Africa: explorative studies on appropriation in African societies
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication2012
Series EditorJ.B. Gewald, A.H.M. Leliveld, and I. Peša
Series titleAfrican dynamics
Issue11
PaginationXII, 302
Date Published2012
PublisherBrill
Place PublishedLeiden [etc.]
Publication Languageeng
ISSN Number9789004245235
KeywordsAfrica
Abstract

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.

IR handle/ Full text URLhttp://hdl.handle.net/1887/31975
Citation Key5142