Author: Samwel Moses Ntapanta

Samwel Moses Ntapanta is a Senior Research Associate at the Chair for Social and Cultural Anthropology with a focus on Africa at the University of Bayreuth..
Samwel is working on the convergencies of East African urbanism, its link to globalisation, consumption and discarding of electronic and electric devices (e-waste). He is following global and local electronic waste (e-waste) flows, technospheres of repairing, reusing and repurposing. The assemblages of labour, ethnicity, kinship, care and solidarity arise and toxicity lifeworlds entangled with e-waste.
Twitter. @Fundi_Ntapanta

Samwel Moses Ntapanta

Samwel Moses Ntapanta is a Senior Research Associate at the Chair for Social and Cultural Anthropology with a focus on Africa at the University of Bayreuth.. Samwel is working on the convergencies of East African urbanism, its link to globalisation, consumption and discarding of electronic and electric devices (e-waste). He is following global and local electronic waste (e-waste) flows, technospheres of repairing, reusing and repurposing. The assemblages of labour, ethnicity, kinship, care and solidarity arise and toxicity lifeworlds entangled with e-waste. Twitter. @Fundi_Ntapanta

Let there be Light: Frontiers of techno-Solar Capitalism

September, 2023 / By Samwel Moses Ntapanta

I grew up in an area surrounded by miombo woodland, located approximately 200 kilometres southeast of Lake Tanganyika. In the […]