Making of the African Road
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9789004336742
Subjects: Roads, design and construction; Roads, africa
Description: The making of the African road' offers an account of the long-distance road in Africa. Being a latecomer to automobility and far from saturated mass mobility, the African road continues to be open for diverging interpretations and creative appropriations. The road regime on the continent is thus still under construction, and it is made in more than one sense: physically, socially, politically, morally and cosmologically. The contributions to this volume provide first-hand anthropological insights into the infrastructural, economic, historical as well as experiential dimensions of the emerging orders of the African road.0.