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Sociality Revisited? The Use of the Internet and Mobile Phones in Urban Cameroon
Language: en
Pages: 550
Authors: Bettina Anja Frei
Categories: Computers
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013 - Publisher: African Books Collective

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This book draws on the perspectives of non-migrants and urban youth in Bamenda, in the Northwest region of Cameroon, as well as on the views of Cameroonian migr
Urban Life-Worlds in Motion
Language: en
Pages: 229
Authors: Hans Peter Hahn
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-03-15 - Publisher: transcript Verlag

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Urban agglomerations host the most vital and creative societies. This applies particularly to Africa, where cities have the highest growth rates world-wide and
Being Available and Reachable
Language: en
Pages: 322
Authors: Mbeanwoah Tazanu
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-06-27 - Publisher: African Books Collective

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The book investigates what have become of Cameroonian transnational family and friendship ties in the age of the mobile phone and the internet that make people
Rethinking Marginality in South Africa
Language: en
Pages: 286
Authors: Crystal Powell
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-07-17 - Publisher: African Books Collective

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What does it mean to be marginal? For residents of Cape Towns Langa Township, being considered marginal is subject to a host of social, physical and sometimes m
Regimes of Mobility
Language: en
Pages: 195
Authors: Noel Salazar
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-08-25 - Publisher: Routledge

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Mobility studies emerged from a postmodern moment in which global ‘flows’ of capital, people and objects were increasingly noted and celebrated. Within this