Whatsapp And Everyday Life In West Africa

Author : Idayat Hassan,Jamie Hitchen
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781350257870

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WhatsApp and Everyday Life in West Africa by Idayat Hassan,Jamie Hitchen Pdf

WhatsApp is the most popular messaging platform in over 80% of countries in West Africa, and a daily port of call for a wide range of information and services. This edited collection seeks to examine the impact that this transformative technology has had beyond the much-discussed role it has played in the spread of misinformation, and explore more widely the fundamental changes that WhatsApp has brought to many citizens' lives in social, economic and political contexts. Ranging across subjects including political organisation, religious practice, and family relations, each author in this volume brings direct knowledge and testimony of the impact of WhatsApp across West African society.

Author : Idayat Hassan,Jamie Hitchen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781350257894

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WhatsApp and Everyday Life in West Africa by Idayat Hassan,Jamie Hitchen Pdf

WhatsApp is the most popular messaging platform in over 80% of countries in West Africa, and a daily port of call for a wide range of information and services. This edited collection seeks to examine the impact that this transformative technology has had beyond the much-discussed role it has played in the spread of misinformation, and explore more widely the fundamental changes that WhatsApp has brought to many citizens' lives in social, economic and political contexts. Ranging across subjects including political organisation, religious practice, and family relations, each author in this volume brings direct knowledge and testimony of the impact of WhatsApp across West African society.

Author : Amelia Johns,Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández,Emma Baulch
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781509550517

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WhatsApp by Amelia Johns,Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández,Emma Baulch Pdf

In the 2010s, as chat apps became a primary mode of communication for many people across the world, WhatsApp quickly outpaced rival messaging apps and developed into a platform. In this book, the authors provide a comprehensive account of WhatsApp’s global growth. Charting WhatsApp’s evolution from its founding in 2009 to the present day, they argue that WhatsApp has been transformed from a simple, ‘gimmickless’ app into a global communication platform. Understanding this development can shed light on the trajectory of Meta’s industrial development, and how digital economies and social media landscapes are evolving with the rise of ‘superapps’. This book explores how WhatsApp’s unique characteristics mediate new kinds of social and commercial transactions; how they pose new opportunities and challenges for platform regulation, civic participation and democracy; and how they give rise to new kinds of digital literacy as WhatsApp becomes integrated into everyday digital cultures across the globe. Accessibly written, this book is an essential resource for students and scholars of digital media, cultural studies, and media and communications.

Author : Ibrahim Abdullah,Ismail Rashid
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786991706

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Understanding West Africa's Ebola Epidemic by Ibrahim Abdullah,Ismail Rashid Pdf

From 2013 to 2015, over 11,000 people across West Africa lost their lives to the deadliest outbreak of the Ebola virus in history. Crucially, this epidemic marked the first time the virus was able to spread beyond rural areas to major cities, overturning conventional assumptions about its epidemiology. With backgrounds ranging from development to disease control, the contributors to this volume - some of them based in countries affected by the Ebola epidemic - consider the underlying factors that shaped this unprecedented outbreak. While championing the heroic efforts of local communities and aid workers in halting the spread of the disease, the contributors also reveal deep structural problems in both the countries and humanitarian agencies involved, which hampered the efforts to contain the epidemic. Alarmingly, they show that little has been learned from these events, with health provision remaining underfunded and poorly equipped to deal with future outbreaks. Such issues, they argue, reflect the wider challenges we face in tackling epidemic disease in an increasingly interconnected world.

Author : Sara Paiva
Publisher : Springer
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-11
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319934914

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Mobile Solutions and Their Usefulness in Everyday Life by Sara Paiva Pdf

This book provides an insight into recent technological trends and innovations in solutions and platforms to improve mobility of visually impaired people. The authors’ goal is to help to contribute to the social and societal inclusion of the visually impaired. The book’s topics include, but are not limited to, obstacle detection systems, indoor and outdoor navigation, transportation sustainability systems, and hardware/devices to aid visually impaired people. The book has a strong focus on practical applications tested in a real environment. Applications include city halls, municipalities, and companies that must keep up to date with recent trends in platforms, methodologies and technologies to promote urban mobility. Also discuss are broader realms including education, health, electronics, tourism, and transportation. Contributors include a variety of researchers and practitioners around the world.

Author : Lewis Lucke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Droughts
ISBN : 0815805292

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Waiting for Rain by Lewis Lucke Pdf

"Waiting for Rain" is the story of a young, novice development professional who leaves the comfort of the United States to live and work in Mali, one of West Africa's poorest but most interesting and authentically African countries. Mali boasts one of the lowest GDPs and some of the most intractable development challenges in the world, but it is the home of Timbuktu, the Niger River, Dogon cliff dwellers and the mud mosques of Mopti. Though the country is culturally fascinating, can you ever get over the shock of working in such an impoverished country where life expectancy is 41 and a major drought is just coming to an end? What kind of development programs can you hope to put together to effectively address the problems of Mali. And since this is important work that touches the lives of real people, when all is said and done, will you have succeeded or not? "Waiting for Rain" may be of interest to those interested in other cultures, travel, Africa, international social issues and development buffs. Without being overly technical, the book treats a serious subject--economic development--while viewing the personal side of living and working in Mali.

Author : Larry Diamond,Marc F. Plattner
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781421405681

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Liberation Technology by Larry Diamond,Marc F. Plattner Pdf

Liberation Technology brings together cutting-edge scholarship from scholars and practitioners at the forefront of this burgeoning field of study. An introductory section defines the debate with a foundational piece on liberation technology and is then followed by essays discussing the popular dichotomy of liberation'' versus "control" with regard to the Internet and the sociopolitical dimensions of such controls. Additional chapters delve into the cases of individual countries: China, Egypt, Iran, and Tunisia.

Author : Ndangwa Noyoo,Emmanuel Boon
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781928357902

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Indigenous Social Security Systems in Southern and West Africa by Ndangwa Noyoo,Emmanuel Boon Pdf

The desire exists within Governments to provide for those who are on the fringes of society. Therefore, indigenous approaches seem relevant in the redistribution of resources among citizens. This book is therefore not only essential, but also timely. Indigenous Social Security Systems in Southern and West Africa (ISSS) contributes to human service literature for Africa, Southern Africa and West Africa in particular. The richness of the book lies within the variety of contributions that encourage its origin. The book?s value is extensive and captures many essential and current topics that have an appeal to academicians, policy?makers, analysts and practitioners in the field of social welfare and social security. Ultimately, the book serves as a pragmatic and expedient tool for human service practitioners and any enthusiast of social security systems.

Author : Kinyanjui, Mary Njeri
Publisher : African Minds
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781928331780

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African Markets and the Utu-Ubuntu Business Model by Kinyanjui, Mary Njeri Pdf

The persistence of indigenous African markets in the context of a hostile or neglectful business and policy environment makes them worthy of analysis. An investigation of Afrocentric business ethics is long overdue. Attempting to understand the actions and efforts of informal traders and artisans from their own points of view, and analysing how they organise and get by, allows for viable approaches to be identified to integrate them into global urban models and cultures. Using the utu-ubuntu model to understand the activities of traders and artisans in Nairobi’s markets, this book explores how, despite being consistently excluded and disadvantaged, they shape urban spaces in and around the city, and contribute to its development as a whole. With immense resilience, and without discarding their own socio-cultural or economic values, informal traders and artisans have created a territorial complex that can be described as the African metropolis. African Markets and the Utu-buntu Business Model sheds light on the ethics and values that underpin the work of traders and artisans in Nairobi, as well as their resilience and positive impact on urbanisation. This book makes an important contribution to the discourse on urban economics and planning in African cities.

Author : Eswar Prasad,Vera Songwe
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780815738541

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Regional Integration in West Africa by Eswar Prasad,Vera Songwe Pdf

" Assessing the potential benefits and risks of a currency union Leaders of the fifteen-member Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have set a goal of achieving a monetary and currency union by late 2020. Although some progress has been made toward achieving this ambitious goal, major challenges remain if the region is to realize the necessary macroeconomic convergence and establish the required institutional framework in a relatively short period of time. The proposed union offers many potential benefits, especially for countries with historically high inflation rates and weak central banks. But, as implementation of the euro over the past two decades has shown, folding multiple currencies, representing disparate economies, into a common union comes with significant costs, along with operational challenges and transitional risks. All these potential negatives must be considered carefully by ECOWAS leaders seeking tomeet a self-imposed deadline. This book, by two leading experts on economics and Africa, makes a significant analytical contribution to the debates now under way about how ECOWAS could achieve and manage its currency union, andthe ramifications for the African continent. "

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers
Page : 2162 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-09
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9781496424716

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Africa Study Bible, NLT by Anonim Pdf

The Africa Study Bible brings together 350 contributors from over 50 countries, providing a unique African perspective. It's an all-in-one course in biblical content, theology, history, and culture, with special attention to the African context. Each feature was planned by African leaders to help readers grow strong in Jesus Christ by providing understanding and instruction on how to live a good and righteous life--Publisher.

Author : Paul Richards
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781783608607

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Ebola by Paul Richards Pdf

Shortlisted for the Fage and Oliver Prize 2018 From December 2013, the largest Ebola outbreak in history swept across West Africa, claiming thousands of lives in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. By the middle of 2014, the international community was gripped by hysteria. Experts grimly predicted that millions would be infected within months, and a huge international control effort was mounted to contain the virus. Yet paradoxically, by this point the disease was already going into decline in Africa itself. So why did outside observers get it so wrong? Paul Richards draws on his extensive first-hand experience in Sierra Leone to argue that the international community's panicky response failed to take account of local expertise and common sense. Crucially, Richards shows that the humanitarian response to the disease was most effective in those areas where it supported these initiatives and that it hampered recovery when it ignored or disregarded local knowledge.

Author : Sharath Srinivasan,Stephanie Diepeveen,George Hamandishe Karekwaivanane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367715279

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Publics in Africa in a Digital Age by Sharath Srinivasan,Stephanie Diepeveen,George Hamandishe Karekwaivanane Pdf

Author : Colin M. Waugh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781848138490

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Charles Taylor and Liberia by Colin M. Waugh Pdf

Campaigner, insurgent, fugitive, rebel commander, commodity kingpin, elected president, exile and finally prisoner, Charles Taylor sought to lead his country to change but instead ignited a conflict which destroyed Liberia in over a decade of violence, greed and personal ambition. Taylor's takeover threw much of the neigbouring region into turmoil, until he was finally brought to face justice in The Hague for his role in Sierra Leone's civil war. In this remarkable and eye-opening book, Colin Waugh draws on a variety of sources, testimonies and original interviews - including with Taylor himself - to recount the story of what really happened during these turbulent years. In doing so, he examines both the life of Charles Taylor, as well as the often self-interested efforts of the international community to first save Liberia from disaster, then, having failed to do so, to bring to justice the man it deems most to blame for its disintegration.

Author : Lenore Manderson,Nancy J. Burke,Ayo Wahlberg
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800080232

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Viral Loads by Lenore Manderson,Nancy J. Burke,Ayo Wahlberg Pdf

Drawing upon the empirical scholarship and research expertise of contributors from all settled continents and from diverse life settings and economies, Viral Loads illustrates how the COVID-19 pandemic, and responses to it, lay bare and load onto people’s lived realities in countries around the world. A crosscutting theme pertains to how social unevenness and gross economic disparities are shaping global and local responses to the pandemic, and illustrate the effects of both the virus and efforts to contain it in ways that amplify these inequalities. At the same time, the contributions highlight the nature of contemporary social life, including virtual communication, the nature of communities, neoliberalism and contemporary political economies, and the shifting nature of nation states and the role of government. Over half of the world’s population has been affected by restrictions of movement, with physical distancing requirements and self-isolation recommendations impacting profoundly on everyday life but also on the economy, resulting also, in turn, with dramatic shifts in the economy and in mass unemployment. By reflecting on how the pandemic has interrupted daily lives, state infrastructures and healthcare systems, the contributing authors in this volume mobilise anthropological theories and concepts to locate the pandemic in a highly connected and exceedingly unequal world. The book is ambitious in its scope – spanning the entire globe – and daring in its insistence that medical anthropology must be a part of the growing calls to build a new world.