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"African Motors shows how Tanzanians made cars an African technology throughout the 1900s. Anchored in hundreds of oral interviews with mechanics, passengers, and drivers, the book takes car culture apart by moving from the open road to the repair garage and from post-OPEC crisis oil trading to socialist urban transport. Joshua Grace demonstrates that automobiles, best known as symbols of western technological power and development, never stabilized as a tool of empire capable of conquering and displacing African modalities of movement or their built worlds. On the contrary, pre-car walking networks provided the social and technological frameworks for Africans to appropriate cars on their own terms. The heart of this argument comes from repair garages found at homes, along streets, and under trees where mechanics designed and made a variety of African vehicles and parts. African Motors is neither a top-down nor an outside-in history, but rather an African-centered story of development featuring myriad examples of everyday Africans forging both individual and collective cultures of social and technological well-being through movement, making, and repair"--

Automobiles --- Economic development --- HISTORY / Africa / East. --- TRANSPORTATION / Automotive / History. --- Technology --- History --- Social aspects --- HISTORY / Africa / East --- TRANSPORTATION / Automotive / History

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A comprehensive historical, geographic, and thematic analysis of the multidimensional and dynamic migration experience of Ethiopians within and beyond Africa.Ethiopia is one of the largest African sources of transnational migrants, with an estimated two to three million Ethiopians living outside of the home country. This edited collection provides a critical examination of the temporal, spatial, and thematic dimensions of Ethiopian migration, mapping out its scale, scope, and destinations. The thirteen essays here (plus an introduction and conclusion by the volume's editors) offer a discussion of the state of knowledge and current debates on the diaspora and suggest alternative frameworks for interrogating and understanding the Ethiopian migration and diasporic experiences. Key time periods and literatures are identified to study Ethiopian transnational migration, moving from a survey of patterns in pre-twentieth-century Ethiopia and on to changing trajectories in the imperial period and under succeeding postrevolutionary regimes.Geographically, the contour of the Ethiopian diaspora is outlined, identifying key destinations and patterns of return. In particular, the volume seeks to correct the traditional tendency to conflate the Ethiopian diaspora with North America and Europe by including areas that have long been marginalized, such as inter-Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. The objective is not to construct a simple cartography of migration but a critical analysis of national and global issues, policies, trends, and processes that shape the roots and routes of the migration dynamic. Thematically, this book aims to challenge the existing boundaries of Ethiopian migration and diaspora studies and raise important concerns about representation, ghettoization, and perpetuation of inequalities. Edited by Shimelis Bonsa Gulema, Hewan Girma, and Mulugeta F. Dinbabo. Contributors: Alpha Abebe; Amsale Alemu; Tekalign Ayalew; Kassaye Berhanu-MacDonald; Elizabeth Chacko; Marina de Regt; Mulugeta F. Dinbabo; Peter H. Gebre; Hewan Girma; Mary Goitom; Shimelis Bonsa Gulema; Tesfaye Semela; Nassise Solomon; and Fitsum R. Tedla.

Ethiopian diaspora. --- Ethiopians --- Migrations. --- African migrations. --- Diaspora studies. --- Migration analysis. --- Migration routes. --- Social issues. --- Transnational migration. --- HISTORY / Africa / East.

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"Over the last twenty years of neoliberal reform, the power supply in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania's metropolis, has become less reliable even as its importance has increased. Though mobile phones, televisions, and refrigerators have flooded the city, the electricity required to run these devices is still supplied by the socialist-era energy company Tanesco, which is characterized by increased fees, aging infrastructure, and a sluggish bureaucracy. While some residents contemplate off-grid solutions, others repair, extend, or tap into the state network with the assistance of freelance electricians or moonlighting utility employees. In The City Electric Michael Degani explores how electricity and its piracy has become a key site for urban Tanzanians to enact, experience, and debate their social contract with the state. Moving from the politics of generation contracts down to the street level experience of blackouts and disconnection patrols, he reveals the logics of infrastructural modification and their effects on everyday life. As politicians, residents, electricians, and utility inspectors all redistribute flows of payment and power, they reframe the energy grid as both a technical system and an ongoing experiment in collective interdependence"--

Electric power distribution --- Electric power transmission --- Electric utilities --- Electric utilities --- HISTORY / Africa / East. --- Political corruption --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. --- Reliability --- Corrupt practices --- Tanzania Electric Supply Company.

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The 1976-1992 civil war which opposed the Government of Frelimo and the Renamo guerrillas (among other actors) is a central event in the history of Mozambique. Aiming to open up a new era of studies of the war, this book re-evaluates this period from a number of different local perspectives in an attempt to better understand the history, complexity and multiple dynamics of the armed conflict. Focusing at local level on either a province or a single village, the authors analyse the conflict as a "total social phenomena" involving all elements of society and impacting on every aspect of life across the country. The chapters examine Frelimo and Renamo as well as private, popular and state militias, the Catholic Church, NGOs and traders. Drawing on previously unexamined sources such as local and provincial state archives, religious archives, the guerrilla's own documentation and interviews, the authors uncover alternative dimensions of the civil war. The book thus enables a deeper understanding of the conflict and its actors as well as offering an explanatory framework for understanding peacemaking, the nature of contemporary politics, and the current conflict in the country. Eric Morier-Genoud is a Lecturer in African history at Queen's University Belfast; Domingos Manuel do Rosário is Lecturer in electoral sociology and electoral governance at Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo, Mozambique; Michel Cahen is a Senior Researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) at Bordeaux Political Studies Institute and at the Casa de Velázquez in Madrid.

Mozambique --- History --- HISTORY / Africa / East. --- Actors. --- Armed Conflict. --- Catholic Church. --- Civil War. --- Conflict. --- Contemporary Politics. --- Development. --- Domingos Manuel do Rosário. --- Dynamics. --- Eric Morier-Genoud. --- Frelimo. --- Government. --- Guerrillas. --- History. --- Local Dynamics. --- Michel Cahen. --- Mozambique. --- NGOs. --- Nationalism. --- Peacebuilding. --- Peacemaking. --- Politics. --- Private Militias. --- Renamo. --- Society. --- The War Within: New Perspectives on the Civil War in Mozambique, 1976-1992. --- Traders.

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Examines white settlers lives and argues that a series of interlaced ideas about civilization, paternalism, threats, and moral failings lead to their claims of sppremacy enacted through rituals of prestige, deference, humiliation, and violence.

Siedler. --- Weisse. --- Colonists. --- Ethnic relations --- Colonists --- Settlers (Colonists) --- Persons --- Inter-ethnic relations --- Interethnic relations --- Relations among ethnic groups --- Acculturation --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Ethnic groups --- Ethnology --- Social problems --- Sociology --- Minorities --- Race relations --- History --- History. --- 1895 - 1963 --- Kenia. --- Kenya. --- Kenya --- Cenia --- Chenia --- Colony and Protectorate of Kenya --- GOK --- Government of Kenya --- Jamhuri ya Kenya --- Kenia --- Kenii︠a︡ --- Kenniya --- Kenya Colony and Protectorate --- Ḳenyah --- Kīniyā --- Kīnyā --- Quênia --- Republic of Kenya --- Кения --- קניה --- كينيا --- ケニア --- 肯尼亚 --- East Africa Protectorate --- Weiße Rasse --- Weißer --- Weibliche Weiße --- Europide --- Ansiedler --- Kolonist --- Siedlerin --- Kenii͡ --- Kīniy --- Kīny --- Ǧumhūrīyat Kīnyā --- Kīnyā --- Republik Kenia --- Keniia --- 12.12.1963 --- -History --- African History. --- HISTORY / Africa / East. --- African history --- Law. --- Paternalism. --- Prestige. --- Rape. --- Settler colonialism. --- Violence. --- Whiteness.