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The Forum: The Bicycle: Freedom Machine

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MAIN IMAGE 1920 x 1080 Village level entrepeneur using the Nuru Lights device (credit: Nuru Lights)

10/10/2015 GMT

The Bicycle: Freedom Machine

BBC World Service - The Forum, The Bicycle: Freedom Machine

How important is the bicycle and what does it do for us?

Cycling for health and happiness, pedal power as a provider of light and heat and bicycles as a vehicle for women’s liberation.

The importance of the bicycle around the World as a means to heat and light remote African communities, as an ideal city transport, as a vehicle for  female emancipation and as a philosophy, exploring the relationship between us the  bicycle. With Bridget Kendall are social enterprise guru Sameer Hajee, Helsinki city cycling planner Reetta Keisanen, historian Dr Sheila Hanlon and professor Mike Austin.

(Photo: A village level entrepreneur using a Nuru Lights device. Credit: Nuru Lights)

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