African Motors: Technology, Gender, and the History of Development

by Joshua Grace

Book Overview

In African Motors, Joshua Grace examines how everyday Tanzanian drivers, mechanics, and passengers reconstituted the automobile into a uniquely African form between the late 1800s to the early 2000s. Drawing on hundreds of oral histories, ethnographic fieldwork as an apprentice in Dar es Salaam's informal network of garages, and extensive archival research, Grace counters the pervasive narratives that Africa is incompatible with technology...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478011718
• ISBN13: 9781478011712
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"