Ghana On The Go: African Mobility In The Age Of Motor Transportation - 9780253023070

Introduction: Auto/mobile lives -- "All shall pass" : indigenous entrepreneurs, colonial technopolitics, and the roots of African automobility, 1901-1939 -- "Honest labor" : public safety, private profit, and the professionalization of drivers, 1930-1945 -- "Modern men" : motor transportation and the politics of respectability, 1930s-1960s -- "One man, no chop" : licit wealth, good citizens, and the criminalization of drivers in postcolonial Ghana -- "Sweet not always" : automobility, state power, and the politics of development, 1980s-1990s -- Epilogue: "no rest for the trotro driver" : ambivalence and automobility in twenty-first-century Ghana.

• | Author: Jennifer Anne Hart
• | Publisher: Indiana University Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 03, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 264 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/History
• | ISBN-10: 0253023076
• | ISBN-13: 9780253023070