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Kfaang and its technologies : towards a social history of mobility in Kom, Cameroon, 1928-1998
Physical mobility of people from place to place as individuals or as groups is essentially horizontal, potentially limitless, and generally motivated by the desire and ambition to take advantage of new opportunities for self or group advancement. Geographical mobility is the basis of Grasslanders’ communities in Anglophone Cameroon and beyond. In this study of Kom, the second largest kingdom in the Bamenda Grasslands, the life histories and rich archival files enlighten the history of mobility in relation to the development of communication technologies. Between 1928, when the St. Anthony’s Primary School, Njinikom, Kom was opened and 1998, when the road linking Kom and Bamenda was tarred, the number of people travelling out of Kom and back steadily increased. This spatial mobility was greatly facilitated and accelerated by ‘modern’ transportation and communication technologies like the roads and vehicles. Such persons were usually among those...
Show morePhysical mobility of people from place to place as individuals or as groups is essentially horizontal, potentially limitless, and generally motivated by the desire and ambition to take advantage of new opportunities for self or group advancement. Geographical mobility is the basis of Grasslanders’ communities in Anglophone Cameroon and beyond. In this study of Kom, the second largest kingdom in the Bamenda Grasslands, the life histories and rich archival files enlighten the history of mobility in relation to the development of communication technologies. Between 1928, when the St. Anthony’s Primary School, Njinikom, Kom was opened and 1998, when the road linking Kom and Bamenda was tarred, the number of people travelling out of Kom and back steadily increased. This spatial mobility was greatly facilitated and accelerated by ‘modern’ transportation and communication technologies like the roads and vehicles. Such persons were usually among those whose horizons had been widened by other modern agencies of change like the schools and churches which are themselves considered as technologies in this study.Kfaang, a notion of newness, has become the core to understand the flexible identity of Kom people and their appropriation of ICT in their notions of being Kom and a Kom community that transgress international borders.
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- Nkwi, W.G.
- Supervisor
- Bruijn, M.E. de
- Qualification
- Doctor (dr.)
- Awarding Institution
- Faculty of Humanities , Leiden University
- Date
- 2011-05-24
- Title of host publication
- African studies collection
- ISBN
- 9789054481010
Publication Series
- Name
- 30
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- LEI Universiteit Leiden