Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Map of Kenya and the East Africa region ix
5. Acknowledgments xi
6. Introduction 1
7. 1 A divisible sovereignty: The Imperial British East Africa Company, the Crown, and the Sultanate in the Competitive World of Nineteenth-Century Eastern Africa 19
8. 2 The politics of valuation: Building Attachments, “Taxing” Infrastructures, and Transforming Expert Work into Labor 47
9. 3 “Tropicalising” technologies: Cable and Wireless Ltd. and Making Broadcasting “Work” 77
10. 4 Broadcasting the Future. Airwaves and the Politics of Affinity 109
11. 5 The politics of divisibility: Safaricom and the Remaking of the Corporate Nation-State 141
12. 6 Safaricom’s austere labor regime: The Expropriation and Subsumption of Affective Work 175
13. Epilogue 197
14. Notes 207
15. Bibliography 257
16. Index 273