“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

“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

“There is much here for readers across a wide range of disciplines to learn and enjoy.”
 — Africa

“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