Side@Ways: Mobile Margins and the Dynamics of Communication in Africa
Bamenda (CM); Leiden: Langaa;African Studies Centre (2013), 202 pp.
ISBN 9789956728763
Signature commbox: 100:70-Minorities 2013
"This book is about the workings of networks of the mobile in Africa, a continent usually associated with the ‘global shadows’ of the world. How do changes in the possibilities for communication, with the recent hype of mobile technology, influence the social and economic dynamics in Africa’s mobile margins? To what extent is the freedom associated with new Information and Communication Technologies reality or disillusion for people dwelling in the margins? Are ordinary Africans increasingly Side@Ways? How social are these emergent Side@Ways? Contributions to answering these and related questions are harvested from ethnographic insights by team members of the WOTRO funded ‘Mobile Africa revisited’ research programme hosted by the African Studies Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands." (Publisher description)
Introduction: Mobile margins and the dynamics of communication / Mirjam de Bruijn, Inge Brinkman and Francis Nyamnjoh, 1
1 Mobilité et moyens de communication au Guéra [Chad] / Djimet Seli, 17
2 La connexion des marges: marginalité politique et technologie de désenclavement en Basse Casamance (Sud du Sénégal) / Fatima Diallo, 36
3 'Angola my country, Cape Town my home': a young migrant's journey of social becoming and belonging / Imke Gooskens, 61
4 Transnational migration and marginality: Nigerian migrants in anglophone Cameroon / Tangie Nsoh Fonchingong, 82
5 Les femmes hadjaraye du Guéra à l'école d'alphabétisation / Khalil Alio, 98
6 From foot messengers to cell phones: communication in Kom, Cameroon, c. 1916-1998 / Walter Gam Nkwi, 113
7 Grandeur ou misères des cabines téléphoniques privées et publiques au Mali / Naffet Keita, 129
8 Information & communication technology and its impact on transnational migration: the case of Senegalese boat migrants / Henrietta Nyamnjoh, 159
9 Identities of place: mobile naming practices and social landscapes in Sudan / Siri Lamoureux, 178
1 Mobilité et moyens de communication au Guéra [Chad] / Djimet Seli, 17
2 La connexion des marges: marginalité politique et technologie de désenclavement en Basse Casamance (Sud du Sénégal) / Fatima Diallo, 36
3 'Angola my country, Cape Town my home': a young migrant's journey of social becoming and belonging / Imke Gooskens, 61
4 Transnational migration and marginality: Nigerian migrants in anglophone Cameroon / Tangie Nsoh Fonchingong, 82
5 Les femmes hadjaraye du Guéra à l'école d'alphabétisation / Khalil Alio, 98
6 From foot messengers to cell phones: communication in Kom, Cameroon, c. 1916-1998 / Walter Gam Nkwi, 113
7 Grandeur ou misères des cabines téléphoniques privées et publiques au Mali / Naffet Keita, 129
8 Information & communication technology and its impact on transnational migration: the case of Senegalese boat migrants / Henrietta Nyamnjoh, 159
9 Identities of place: mobile naming practices and social landscapes in Sudan / Siri Lamoureux, 178
