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Digital Entrepreneurship in Africa

Digital Entrepreneurship in Africa

Digital Entrepreneurship in Africa

How a Continent Is Escaping Silicon Valley's Long Shadow

by Nicolas Friederici, Michel Wahome and Mark Graham

ISBN: 9780262538183

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: July 28, 2020

The hope and hype about African digital entrepreneurship, contrasted with the reality on the ground in local ecosystems.
The Mobile Workshop

The Mobile Workshop

The Mobile Workshop

The Tsetse Fly and African Knowledge Production

by Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga

ISBN: 9780262535021

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: June 1, 2018

How the presence of the tsetse fly turned the African forest into an open laboratory where African knowledge formed the basis of colonial tsetse control policies.
What Do Science, Technology, and Innovation Mean from Africa?

What Do Science, Technology, and Innovation Mean from Africa?

What Do Science, Technology, and Innovation Mean from Africa?

Edited by Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga

ISBN: 9780262533904

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: June 16, 2017

Explorations of science, technology, and innovation in Africa not as the product of “technology transfer” from elsewhere but as the working of African knowledge.
Being Nuclear

Being Nuclear

Being Nuclear

Africans and the Global Uranium Trade

by Gabrielle Hecht

ISBN: 9780262526869

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 29, 2014

The hidden history of African uranium and what it means—for a state, an object, an industry, a workplace—to be “nuclear.”
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