Speed matters : an ethnography of a Ghanaian highway : its perils and potentialities

African roads give rise to ambivalence in both Africans and Africanists. Masquelier has pointed to the "profoundly contradictory nature of roads as objects of both fascination and terror", spaces "of both fear and desire". My research on the Accra-Kumasi road, one of Ghana's...

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Main Author: Klaeger, Gabriel
Published: SOAS, University of London 2014
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Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.701485