Ghana on the Go: African Mobility in the Age of Motor Transportation

by Jennifer Hart

Book Overview

As early as the 1910s, African drivers in colonial Ghana understood the possibilities that using imported motor transport could further the social and economic agendas of a diverse array of local agents, including chiefs, farmers, traders, fishermen, and urban workers. Jennifer Hart's powerful narrative of auto-mobility shows how drivers built on old trade routes to increase the speed and scale of motorized travel. Hart reveals that new forms of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253023076
• ISBN13: 9780253023070
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips)
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher