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The Social Life of Connectivity in Africa

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  • © 2012

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Editors:
  1. Mirjam Bruijn

    1. African Studies Center in Leiden, The Netherlands
      Leiden University, The Netherlands

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  2. Rijk Dijk

    1. African Studies Center in Leiden, The Netherlands

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The rapid increase in adoption of modern 'connective' technologies like the mobile phone has reshaped the social landscape of Africa. This book examines the myriad possibilities that the post-global moment offers African societies to develop and to relate, offering profound new insights into the processes of globalization.

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction Connectivity and the Postglobal Moment: (Dis)connections and Social Change in Africa

    • Mirjam de Bruijn, Rijk van Dijk
    Pages 1-20

  3. Flows and Forces: Once Contained, Now Detained? On Connections Past and Present in Rwanda

    • Danielle de Lame
    Pages 21-44

  4. Research Practice in Connections: Travels and Methods

    • Mirjam de Bruijn, Inge Brinkman
    Pages 45-63

  5. Patriarchy Turned Upside Down: The Flight of the Royal Women of Kom, Cameroon from 1920 to the 1960s

    • Walter Gam Nkwi
    Pages 65-80

  6. Beyond the Last Frontier: Major Trollope and the Eastern Caprivi Zipfel

    • Jan-Bart Gewald
    Pages 81-93

  7. The “Victorian Internet” Reaches Halfway to Cairo: Cape Tanganyika Telegraphs, 1875–1926

    • Neil Parsons
    Pages 95-121

  8. Marriages and Mobility in Akan Societies: Disconnections and Connections over Time and Space

    • Astrid Bochow
    Pages 123-139

  9. A Ritual Connection: Urban Youth Marrying in the Village in Botswana

    • Rijk van Dijk
    Pages 141-159

  10. Connecting Communities and Business: Public-Private Partnerships as the Panacea for Land Reform in Limpopo Province, South Africa

    • Marja Spierenburg, Ben Cousins, Angélique Bos, Lubabalo Ntsholo
    Pages 161-182

  11. Connectivities Compared: Transnational Islamic NGOs in Chad and Senegal

    • Mayke Kaag
    Pages 183-201

  12. Love Therapy: A Brazilian Pentecostal (Dis)connection in Maputo

    • Linda van de Kamp
    Pages 203-225

  13. Ajala Travel: Mobility and Connections as Forms of Social Capital in Nigerian Society

    • Oka Obono, Koblowe Obono
    Pages 227-241

  14. Connecting “Ourselves”: A Dogon Ethnic Association and the Impact of Connectivity

    • Walter E. A. van Beek
    Pages 243-264

  15. Intimate Strangers: Connecting Fiction and Ethnography

    • Francis B. Nyamnjoh
    Pages 265-287

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 289-295
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Editors and Affiliations

  • African Studies Center in Leiden, The Netherlands

    Mirjam Bruijn, Rijk Dijk

  • Leiden University, The Netherlands

    Mirjam Bruijn

About the editors

ASTRID BOCHOW Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany ANGÉLIQUE BOS Leiden University, the Netherlands BEN COUSINS University of the Western Cape, South Africa JAN-BART GEWALD DANIELLE DE LAME Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium MAYKE KAAG African Studies Centre, Leiden/Utrecht University, the Netherlands LINDA VAN DE KAMP VU University Amsterdam/African Studies Centre, Leiden, the Netherlands WALTER GAN NKWI University of Leiden, the Netherlands FRANCIS B. NYAMNJOH University of Cape Town, South Africa OKA OBONO University of Ibadan, Nigeria NEIL PARSONS University of Botswana MARJA SPIERENBURG VU University Amsterdam/University of Stellenbosch, South Africa

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