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oapen-20.500.12657-313352023-01-31T18:45:46Z What Do Science, Technology, and Innovation Mean from Africa? Mavhunga, Clapperton Sociology Africa Mobile phone 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. 2017-05-01 23:55:55 2020-03-04 03:00:32 2020-04-01T13:31:22Z 2020-04-01T13:31:22Z 2017-04-30 book 631166 OCN: 994209909 9780262533904 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31335 eng application/pdf n/a 631166.pdf The MIT Press 10.26530/oapen_631166 100317 10.26530/oapen_631166 f49dea23-efb1-407d-8ac0-6ed2b5cb4b74 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780262533904 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Cambridge, Massachusetts 100317 KU Select 2016 Front List Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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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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