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AEGIS European Conference on African Studies
11 - 14 July 2007
African Studies Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands
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The History of Communication and Technology in the Bamenda Grassfields of Cameroon
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73. New Social Spaces. Mobility and technology in Africa
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| Paper ID | 381 |
| Author(s) |
Nkwi, Walter Gam
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No paper submitted
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| Abstract | The paper focuses on the history of communication and technology in the Bamenda Grass fields of Cameroon.The introduction of new communication technologies like the cell phones,has created mobile margins,and the historical dynamics of social hierarchies.All these call for enquiry in the sub-region.This is more compelling because the mobile phone is well integrated in the Bamenda Grass fields of Cameroon.Despite this integration,little or no scholarship has taken it seriously.This paper will therefore hinged on how communication technology shape relations between different communities of the Bamenda Grassfields and has also changed feelings of anxiety-perceptions and ideas over time and space.It will further delineate how cell phone technology and Internet Cyber cafes has defined and redefined culture and relations amongst the people of the Grass fiels.The appraoch adopted here will be interdiscip0linary although an historical dimension will be uppermost |
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