From the elitist to the commonality of voice communication: The history of the telephone in Buea, Cameroon

Mobile Phones: The New Talking Drums of Everyday Africa

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 50-68

  Nkwi, Walter Gam ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BUEA   (Cameroon)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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