Side@Ways: mobile margins and the dynamics of communication in Africa

Bruijn, M.E. de; Nyamnjoh, F.; Brinkman, I. (2013)

Book (monograph)

This edited volume focuses on mobile phone use in specific African communities, namely those that have a long history of mobility and are regarded as marginal in the national economic, social and/or political context. It was in such regions that the most intensive dynamics were expected to be seen following the introduction of the mobile phone. Contributions: Introduction: mobile margins and the dynamics of communication (Mirjam de Bruijn, Inge Brinkman and Francis Nyamnjoh); Mobilit‚ et moyens de communication au Gu‚ra (Chad) (Djimet Seli); La connexion des marges: marginalit‚ politique et technologie de d‚senclavement en Basse Casamance (Sud du S‚n‚gal) (Fatima Diallo); 'Angola my country, Cape Town my home': a young migrant's journey of social becoming and belonging (Imke Gooskens); Transnational migration and marginality: Nigerian migrants in anglophone Cameroon (Tangie Nsoh Fonchingong); Les femmes hadjaraye du Gu‚ra … l'‚cole de l'alphab‚tisation (Khalil Alio); From foot messengers to cell phones: communication in Kom, Cameroon, c. 1916-1998 (Walter Gam Nkwi); Grandeur ou misŠres des cabines t‚l‚phoniques priv‚es et publiques au Mali (Naffet Ke‹ta); Informationandcommunication technology and its impact on transnational migration: the case of Senegalese boat migrants (Henrietta Nyamnjoh); Identities of place: mobile naming practices and social landscapes in Sudan (Siri Lamoureux). [ASC Leiden abstract]

• Africa
• Cameroon
• Chad
• communication
• Mali
• migrants
• mobile telephone
• mobility
• Senegal
• South Africa
• Sudan
• mobile phone
• history
• Angola
• migration
• identity

• All authors: Bruijn, M.E. de; Nyamnjoh, F.; Brinkman, I.
• Date: 2013
• Title of host publication: Langaa / ASC Series
• Publisher: Leiden [etc.]: African Studies CentreandLangaa Publishers
• ISBN (print): 9956728764