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As early as the 1910s, African drivers in colonial Ghana understood the possibilities that using imported motor transport could further the social and economic agendas of a diverse array of local agents, including chiefs, farmers, traders, fishermen, and urban workers. Jennifer Hart's powerful narrative of auto-mobility shows how drivers built on old trade routes to increase the speed and scale of motorized travel. Hart reveals that new forms of labor migration, economic enterprise, cultural production, and social practice were defined by autonomy and mobility and thus shaped the practices and values that formed the foundations of Ghanaian society today. Focusing on the everyday lives of individuals who participated in this century of social, cultural, and technological change, Hart comes to a more sensitive understanding of the ways in which these individuals made new technology meaningful to their local communities and associated it with their future aspirations.


Acknowledgments
Introduction: Auto/Mobile Lives
1. "All Shall Pass": Indigenous Entrepreneurs, Colonial Technopolitics, and the Roots of African Automobility, 1901-1939
2. "Honest Labor": Public Safety, Private Profit, and the Professionalization of Drivers, 1930-1945
3. "Modern Men": Motor Transportation and the Politics of Respectability, 1930s-1960s
4. "One Man, No Chop": Licit Wealth, Good Citizens, and the Criminalization of Drivers in Postcolonial Ghana
5. "Sweet Not Always": Automobility, State Power, and the Politics of Development, 1980s-1990s
Epilogue. "No Rest for the Trotro Driver": Ambivalence and Automobility in 21st Century Ghana
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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GHANA ON THE GO
GHANA ON THE GO
African Mobility in the Age of Motor Transportation
Jennifer Hart
Indiana University Press
Bloomington and Indianapolis
This book is a publication of
Indiana University Press
Office of Scholarly Publishing
Herman B Wells Library 350
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Bloomington, Indiana 47405 USA
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2016 by Jennifer Hart
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Hart, Jennifer A. (Jennifer Anne), author.
Title: Ghana on the go : African mobility in the age of motor transportation / Jennifer Hart.
Description: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016022407 (print) | LCCN 2016023335 (ebook) | ISBN 9780253022776 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780253023070 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780253023254 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Transportation, Automotive-Ghana-History. | Transportation, Automotive-Social aspects-Ghana. | Transportation, Automotive-Government policy-Ghana. | Automobiles-Social aspects-Ghana.
Classification: LCC HE5707.8.A6 H37 2016 (print) | LCC HE5707.8.A6 (ebook) | DDC 388.309667-dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016022407
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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Auto/Mobile Lives
1 All Shall Pass : Indigenous Entrepreneurs, Colonial Technopolitics, and the Roots of African Automobility, 1901-1939
2 Honest Labor : Public Safety, Private Profit, and the Professionalization of Drivers, 1930-1945
3 Modern Men : Motor Transportation and the Politics of Respectability, 1930s-1960s
4 One Man, No Chop : Licit Wealth, Good Citizens, and the Criminalization of Drivers in Postcolonial Ghana
5 Sweet Not Always : Automobility, State Power, and the Politics of Development, 1980s-1990s
Epilogue: No Rest for the Trotro Driver : Ambivalence and Automobility in Twenty-First-Century Ghana
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
K ENT M AYNARD - A THOUGHTFUL anthropologist, gifted poet, and dedicated mentor and teacher-told me to always think of everything like a book. He offered this advice while I was in the throes of writing my honors thesis at Denison University. Though I might have failed to craft a monograph-worthy thesis as an undergrad, that advice stuck with me through graduate school, dissertation research and writing, and the long process of revision that resulted in this final product. Kent s wisdom and kindness as a mentor and friend and his skill as a writer and scholar influenced my development as an academic, a teacher, and a person. This book is dedicated to his memory.
This book was supported by Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships and a Fulbright-Hays DDRA fellowship, as well as funding through the Indiana University Program on African Expressive Traditions, the Indiana University Office of International Programs, the University of Michigan Eisenberg Institute, the Wayne State University Humanities Center, and the Wayne State University Research Grant. But financial support would have been insufficient-and never possible in the first place-without the guidance and encouragement of a large network of colleagues and friends.
I was fortunate to begin my academic career surrounded by people who were both excellent scholars and kind and generous people. At Denison University, Susan Diduk, Kent Maynard, Sita Ranchod-Nilsson, Pamela Scully, Jim Pletcher, and Joanna Grabski provided a firm foundation in interdisciplinary African studies, which placed state politics and the cultures and practices of everyday life in the same frame. The questions provoked in their courses and through their research continue to inform my work as a teacher and scholar. Susan, Sita, Pam, and Joanna have often gone beyond the call as mentors and friends, for which I continue to be grateful. Barbara Fultner, Steve Vogel, Jonathan Maskit, and other members of the Philosophy Department encouraged and guided my interest in social theory and challenged me to develop a critical voice. Belinda Andrews-Smith helped me find a singing voice, which has enriched my life in numerous ways. They all shaped my development as a complete person. What is truly extraordinary, however, is that they continue to do so. This book is, in more or less direct ways, a product of their influence; it began with them.
At Indiana University, John Hanson provided a warm welcome. John s dedication to his students and his generosity as a scholar and a human being is inspirational. His guidance was essential in obtaining grants and jobs and book contracts. But John also taught me the importance of humor, humility, loyalty, discretion, honesty, sincerity, and kindness. Gracia Clark, Lauren Morris Maclean, Beth Buggenhagen, Marissa Moorman, Michelle Moyd, Claire Robertson, Dorothea Schulz, Maria Grosz-Ngate, Marion Frank-Wilson, Phyllis Martin, and many others created a vibrant intellectual community within the African Studies Program. They have, at various times, served as teachers, friends, and advocates. In the History Department, Michael Dodson, Konstantin Dierks, Sarah Knott, Dror Wahrman, Peter Guardino, Jason McGraw, Pedro Machado and others encouraged my interests in world history and imperial history and provided feedback and references that shaped the parameters of this project in important ways. Seth Ofori, Hannah Essien, and Charles Owu-Ewie guided me through the study of Akan/Twi. Fellow graduate students Kate Schroeder, Nate Plageman, Elizabeth McMahon, Matt Carotenuto, Hannington Ochwada, Cyprian Adupa, Ebenezer Ayesu, Muzi Hadebe, Craig Waite, Vaughan Love, Sara Miller, Fred Pratt, Afra Hamid, Shannon Smith, Kathi Fox, Sandrine Catris, Jennifer Cavalli, Kyle Liston, Devy Mays, Susan Ecklemann, Tanisha Ford, Erin Corber, Fabio Zoia, Nicole Mares, Arwen Kimmell, Katie Boswell, Katherine Wiley, Elizabeth Perrill, Abbie Hantgan, Allison Martino, Megan Hershey, Kitty Johnson, Jennifer Boles, Katie Ottaway, and many others challenged me within and outside of the classroom. Kate, Arwen, Katie, Nate, Tanisha, Susan, and Liz have all supported this project directly by reading drafts, sharing resources and contacts, and providing moral support and opportunities for distraction.
At Goshen College, Jan Bender Shelter, Steve Nolt, and John Roth gave me opportunities to teach. Jan, Marcia Good, and Regina Shands-Stoltzfus provided a safe social and intellectual space within which I could grapple with writing problems and experiment with ideas. At Wayne State, Tracy Neumann, Paul Kershaw, Carolyn Loh, Marsha Richmond, Alex Day, Abdullah Al-Arian, Andrew Port, Eric Ash, Kidada Williams, Janine Lanza, Elizabeth Faue, Marc Kruman, Andrew Newman, Krysta Ryzewski, Chera Kee, Liz Reich, Bryan Mack-McCann, Sharon Lean, Irv Reid, Julie Thompson Klein, and Karen Marrero have all supported and commented on my work in some form. Tracy and I worked on our books together, and I am grateful for her willingness to serve as both a signpost and sounding board. Africanist colleagues at the University of Michigan and Michigan State University welcomed me into their intellectual communities and provided me with opportunities to present my work.
Within the broader community of Africanists, Jeffrey Ahlman, Joshua Grace, Lindsey Greene-Simms, Katie Rhine, Bianca Murillo, Alice Wiemers, Lauren Adrover, Samuel Ntewusu, and Gabriel Klaeger have been both colleagues and friends. Jeffrey and Lindsey both read full drafts of this manuscript and provided insightful feedback that pushed the writing forward in important ways. Steve Feld was an important ally in the context of fieldwork and writing, vouching for me, sharing materials, and advocating for the importance of my work. John Parker, likewise, asked important and critical questions that strengthened this work and laid the intellectual foundation for this and future projects. Countless others have provided feedback by reading drafts of articles or chapters, asking questions in conference presentations, and sharing resources and contacts. In addition to annual association meetings in African studies, history, anthropology, and labor studies, this research has been presented at the University of Florida, Rice University, Texas Southern University, the School for Oriental and African Studies, King s College London, the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), the re:Work International Research Center, the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana University, the University of Michigan, and Wayne State University. I am grateful to the conveners of these various workshops, lecture series, and conferences for allowing me the opportunity to present my work and to the participants for their many productive questions.
I am grateful for the interest that Dee Mortensen has expressed in this project over the last four years and for her wisdom and guidance in transforming a dissertation into this book. I am very grateful for constructive and encouraging reviews prepared by William Bissell and Jamie Monson, which provoked me to think

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