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In this book Leah Komen takes the reader by the hand and explores the use of mobile communication in rural Kenya. She is a scholar who is uniquely qualified to be our guide as she is well-grounded in the local context and she has the insight with which to understand mobile communications effect on local lives. The book provides an ethnographic examination of how mobile communication has transformed and developed (she uses the Swahili word maendeleo) the lives of women in Marakwet, Kenya. Along the way, she provides us with an overview of different and perhaps unexpected, trajectories. [....] Komen helps us to understand how mobile communication changes and alters the functioning of social institutions, but also how social institutions are often quite robust. - Rich Ling, Professor of Media Technology, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore This study by Leah Komen is an excellent illustration of the creative appropriation of ICTs by otherwise marginalised Africans to activate and extend themselves in ways that challenge conventional articulations of power and keep hope alive. - Francis B. Nyamnjoh, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Cape Town

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Leah Jerop Komen is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Communication and Deputy Director of Research and Postgraduate Studies at Daystar University, Kenya. She holds a PhD in New Media and Development from University of East London, UK. Dr. Komen is published in peer-reviewed journals and is involved in teaching and supervision of postgraduate students in Kenya and beyond. She is also an external examiner in several African Universities. Her research interests include: the domestication of mobile communication technologies in Africa and how human-technology and context interrelationships form part of social assemblages that intersect for Development.

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