Ghana on the Go(English, Electronic book text, Hart Jennifer)

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Ghana on the Go(English, Electronic book text, Hart Jennifer) is written by Hart Jennifer and published by Indiana University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0253023254 (ISBN 10) and 9780253023254 (ISBN 13).

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 labor migration, economic enterprise, cultural production, and social practice were defined by autonomy and mobility and thus shaped the practices and values that formed the foundations of Ghanaian society today. Focusing on the everyday lives of individuals who participated in this century of social, cultural, and technological change, Hart comes to a more sensitive understanding of the ways in which these individuals made new technology meaningful to their local communities and associated it with their future aspirations.