What do science, technology, and innovation mean from Africa? / edited by Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga.

9780262342322
0262342324
9780262533904 (paperback)
9780262035835 (hardcover)
0262533901
0262035839

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]

English

1 online resource (xiv, 241 pages) : illustrations, maps

HC800.Z9 T486 2017eb

338.064096

Clapperton Mavhunga's collection of essays about science, technology, and innovation (STI) from an African perspective opens with the idea, "Things do not (always) mean the same from everywhere; when we insist that only?our? meaning is the meaning, we silence other people?s meanings." Mavhunga and his contributors argue that our contemporary definitions of STI are those of countries and cultures that have acquired their dominance of others through global empires, and as a counter to that, Mavhunga seeks to put the concepts of STI into question, exploring what the technological, scientific, and innovative might mean from Africa in lieu of outside introductions or influences. We strongly feel that this book is suited to the Knowledge Unlatched program because of the difficulty of reaching markets and readers in Africa with print books. We feel unlatching would go a long way toward helping Mavhunga reach an important audience for this work that we have been previously unable to reach.

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