Transforming innovations in Africa: explorative studies on appropriation in African societies
Year: 2012
Type: book
Abstract: Contents Maps, figures, tables, boxes and photos Acknowledgements 1 Introduction: Transforming innovations in Africa explorative studies on appropriation in African societies Jan-Bart Gewald, Andre Leliveld & Iva Pesa 2 Who killed innovation in the Cape wine industry? The story of a stuck fermentation c. 1930-1986 Paul Nugent 3 Entrepreneurship, colonial monetary economy and the limits of creativity: Appropriating trading stores in Northern Namibia, 1925-1980 Gregor Dobler 4 Frugal innovation in Africa: Tracking Unilever's washing-powder sachets Cees van Beers, Peter Knorringa & Andre Leliveld 5 Mobile cash for nomadic livestock keepers: The impact of the mobile phone innovation (M-Pesa) on Maasai pastoralists in Kenya Moses Mwangi & Marcel Rutten 6 From Gao: Sawaba and the politics of decolonization and insurrection in the Songhay Zone of Mali and Niger (1957-1964) Klaas van Walraven 7 From self-help group to water company: The Wandiege Community Water Supply Project (Kisumu, Kenya) Samuel O. Owuor & Dick Foeken 8 'It is time to start my own farm': The unforeseen effects of two waves of resettlement on household formation in Zimbabwe Marleen Dekker & Bill Kinsey 9 'Cassava is our chief': Negotiating identity, markets and the state through cassava in Mwinilunga, Zambia Iva Pesa 10 The social cocktail: Weddings and the innovative mixing of competences in Botswana Rijk van Dijk 11 Of labradors and libraries: The transformation of innovation on a farm in Kibale, western Uganda Jan-Bart Gewald 12 Engine of change: A social history of the car-mechanics sector in the Horn of Africa Stefano Bellucci & Massimo Zaccaria 13 Water innovations among the Maasai pastoralists in Kenya: The role of outside interventions in the performance of traditional shallow wells Moses Mwangi & Marcel Rutten 14 Stealing from the railways: Blacksmiths, colonialism and innovation in Northern Nigeria Shehu Tijjani Yusuf List of authors
Authors: Jan‐Bart Gewald, A.H.M. Leliveld, Iva Peša
Language: English
Subfield: Business and International Management
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funders: Harvard University, University of Oxford
OpenAlex ID: W1844265138