Voicing African Voices

Author

Inge Brinkman

Mirjam de Bruijn

Mirjam de Bruijn is Professor in African Studies at Leiden University and a researcher at the African Studies Centre, Leiden, the Netherlands.

Anthropology ICTs Science, Technology, Medecine Social Sciences

Side@Ways: Mobile Margins and the Dynamics of Communication in Africa

by Mirjam de Bruijn, Francis B. Nyamnjoh and Inge Brinkman

Marginality does not mean isolation. In Africa where people are permanently on the move in search, inter alia, of a ‘better elsewhere’, marginality means…

Anthropology ICTs Science, Technology, Medecine Social Sciences

Mobile Phones

by Mirjam de Bruijn, Francis B. Nyamnjoh and Inge Brinkman

The New Talking Drums of Everyday Africa ‘We cannot imagine life now without a mobile phone’ is a frequent comment when Africans are asked…

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