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Mobile Phones, Mobility Practices, and Transport Organization in Sub-Saharan Africa

Drawing on published material, gray literature, and personal research, this article explores the implications of growth in mobile phone usage across Africa for patterns of physical mobility, organization of transport services, and the potential for improved transport planning.

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Children as research collaborators: issues and reflections from a mobility study in sub-Saharan Africa.

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'Youthscapes' and escapes in rural Africa: Education, mobility and livelihood trajectories for young people in Eastern Cape, South Africa

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Where dogs, ghosts and lions roam: learning from mobile ethnographies on the journey from school

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Moving young lives: Mobility, immobility and inter-generational tensions in urban Africa

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Child Porterage and Africa's Transport Gap: Evidence from Ghana, Malawi and South Africa

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Mobility, education and livelihood trajectories for young people in rural Ghana: a gender perspective

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Health impacts of pedestrian head-loading: A review of the evidence with particular reference to women and children in sub-Saharan Africa

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Youth, mobility and mobile phones in Africa: findings from a three-country study

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'I think a woman who travels a lot is befriending other men and that's why she travels': mobility constraints and their implications for rural women and girls in sub-Saharan Africa

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