Tanzania academic explores how tech impacts African lives

Dr Samwel Ntapanta, Post Doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Anthropology, Aarhus University in Denmark, explores e-waste and people whose jobs are to pick up the pieces of the technology junks. PHOTO | COURTESY

By  The Citizen Reporter

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  • His doctoral research, titled Gathering the African Technosphere: An Ethnography of Informal Electronic Waste Recycling in Tanzania, took him into the world of informal e-waste recycling in Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar

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