“Jennifer Hart has an acute ear for listening to stories and noticing important themes in the narratives and archives. Such fascinating material.”
 — Jamie Monson, author of Africa's Freedom Railway

“Automobile technology was quickly and fluidly remade and redefined to suit local uses--in ways that alter how we think about economy, society, and modernity, as well as modes of African inventiveness: the capacity to divert, adapt, or redesign material goods or objects, how we think about them, their histories, and cultural possibilities.”
 — William Cunningham Bissell, author of Urban Design, Chaos, and Colonial Power in Zanzibar

“This well-written book deeply engages with the dynamics of African mobility and constitutes a major contribution to twentieth-century Ghanaian history.”
 — International Journal of African Historical Studies

“Jennifer Hart’s text sweeps triumphantly across a century of authomobility in colonial and post-colonial Ghana. . . sophisticated, clear and inspiring account. . . ”
 — Journal of Transport History