The Speed of Change

@inproceedings{Gewald2009TheSO,
  title={The Speed of Change},
  author={J. B. Gewald and Klaas van Walraven and Sabine Luning},
  year={2009}
}
In the early 1900s the motor-vehicle (car, bus, lorry or motor-cycle) was introduced in sub-Saharan Africa This edited volume of eleven contributions by historians, anthropologists, social and political scientists explores aspects of the social history and anthropology of the motor-vehicle in Africa. 
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