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The African Dynamics series, authored by Jan-Bart Gewald and published between 2001 and 2017, examines the processes of innovation and adaptation in African contexts. Each volume explores how external ideas, technologies, and practices are transformed through local creativity and ingenuity. The series emphasizes the active role of African communities in reinterpreting and reshaping foreign innovations to suit their own needs and environments.

Books in this series

Ordered by first publication where known. The official numbering for this series is incomplete in our sources, so we don't show series numbers we can't verify.

  1. Cover of Mobile Africa
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  2. Cover of Rethinking Resistance

    Rethinking Resistance

    2002 · Klaas van Walraven, Mirjam de Bruijn and J. Abbink

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  3. Cover of Situating globality
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  4. Cover of Crisis and creativity
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  7. Cover of Markets of well-being
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  8. Cover of Transforming Innovations in Africa

    Transforming Innovations in Africa

    2012 · Jan-Bart Gewald

    This book explores how external innovations—such as products, technologies, services, institutions, and processes—originally created elsewhere were…

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  10. Cover of Digging deeper
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Frequently asked questions

What order should I read the African Dynamics books in?

Read them in publication order — the list above is sorted by first publication where known, starting with “Mobile Africa”.

How many books are in the African Dynamics series?

We list 11 books by Klaas van Walraven , published between 2001–2017.

Where can I buy the African Dynamics books?

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Reading order compiled from author/publisher guidance and verified bibliographic data. Spotted a wrong order, a missing book, or any other mistake? and we'll correct it.