Trading places in Tanzania: Mobility and marginalization at a time of travel-saving technologies

Mobile Phones: The New Talking Drums of Everyday Africa

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 92-109

  Molony, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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