The Making of the African Road

Reviews / Votes

'Si des etudes eparses avaient deja porte sur les routes en tant que constructions physiques autant que sociales, aucune entreprise n'avait jusqu'ici tente de produire un propos plus systematique sur cet objet en Afrique [...] Plusieurs contributions du recueil peuvent etre lues comme des descriptions extremement fines de pratiques et de representations constitutives des cultures professionnelles des metiers de la route'. - Sidy Cissokho, Centre d'etudes africaines de l'Universite d'Edimbourg (CAS), dans: Politique africaine n degrees 147 (Octobre 2017), p.159-170

'The making of the African road offers superb local and comparative insights, decisively placing African roads into the global history and ethnography of modernity. The volume should be of interest well beyond Africanist circles, to all social scientists and experts interested in matters of road infrastructure.' - Florin Faje, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania, in: Social Anthropology 26.4 (2018), pp. 577-578

'The chapters contribute rich ethnographic descriptions that highlight the diversity of roads in contemporary Africa, ranging from congested urban thoroughfares to desert roads composed of little more than tracks across the sand. [...] the authors engage most directly with scholarship on Western mobility, the anthropology of roads, and science and technology studies, making the book particularly relevant to scholars interested in how technology and culture shape each other.' - Rosa E. Ficek, University of Puerto Rico, in: Transfers 8.3 (2018), pp. 135-136