African Motors: Technology, Gender and the History of Development.

Grace ends I African Motors i by considering global climate change, the problematic nature of polluting automotive technologies, and the broken politics of Tanzania and many other nations. Graph Joshua Grace's I African Motors: Technology, Gender, and the History of Development i is a wonderful addition to the quickly expanding literature on how people in nations outside of rich, Western ones interpreted, used, and remade technologies according to their own needs and values. But Tanzania's poverty and position in the global economy also means that automobile owners, drivers, and mechanics have to make do and adapt in ways that richer nations do not. [Extracted from the article]