African Digital Cultures by Yeku, James; Junck, Leah;

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This interdisciplinary volume offers an essential and decolonizing understanding of digital media cultures and histories from an African perspective.

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Analyzing the innovative and popular uses of digital media technologies across many African countries, African Digital Cultures reveals how digitization, through its inherent computational and epistemological logics, is deeply embedded in the daily lives of millions of people, producing new structures of feeling and new possibilities for political participation, cultural expression, and creative agency.

The book grapples with the affective elements of mediatized social relations and consciousness, as platforms like WhatsApp, Facebook, and TikTok increasingly inform the construction of diverse kinds of publics - from the religious and political to the sexual and the literary. Focusing on the creative and disruptive uses of social media platforms, financial technologies, and digital infrastructures, this collection brings together scholars whose work challenges the notion of Africa as a place of technological lack, underscoring the rich histories and contributions of the continent to global digital media. 

This interdisciplinary volume offers an essential and decolonizing understanding of digital media cultures and histories from an African perspective.

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List of Contributors

African Digital Cultures: Introduction

James Yékú and Leah Junck

Part 1: Infrastructures

Chapter 1: “Big Auntie Like Me”: The Humor of the Digital Divide

Adwoa A. Opoku-Agyemang

Chapter 2: Youth as Digital Infrastructure: Radical Openings, Internet Shutdowns, and Forward Momentums

Clovis Bergere

Chapter 3: Digital Citizens of an Analog State: Infrastructure and Epistemic Closures in Nigeria

James Yékú

Chapter 4: Counting Water for an African future? Smart Water Billing in South Africa

Ina Dietzsch and Amber Abrams

Part 2: Platforms

Chapter 5: Technologies of Capture: From the Slave Ship to Instagram

Ejiofor Ugwu

Chapter 6: Podcasts and Emerging Listenerships in Kenya

Dina Ligaga

Chapter 7: Undisciplining the Digital: Multimodal Poetry as Decolonial Method in Koleka Putuma’s Hullo Bu-bye Koko Come In (2021)

Susanna Sacks

Chapter 8: Locating African Cultural Agency in the Global Digital Economy: The Case of Music Platform Insider Activists

Jaana Serres

Chapter 9: Debating the Ethics of Ownership and Appropriation in Global Digital Afrobeats Culture

Bakar Abdul-Rashid Jeduah & Tom Simmert

Chapter 10: Sharevangelism: Religion, Technology, and Platform Relations

Adunni Adelakun

Part 3: Publics

Chapter 11: “I Don’t Take Card”: What Uber Drivers and Users in Ghana Can Teach Us about Localizing Foreign Technology.” 

Elias Adanu and Stephen Dadugblor

Chapter 12: Digital Citizenship in Nigeria: Claims Making, Civic Engagement and Social Justice Activism on X

Ochega Etu- Ataguba

Chapter 13: Voices of the Ordinary People in the Digital Era: Rebuttals to A President’s Facebook Eulogy

Selina Linda Mudavanhu

Chapter 14: Media Identities and Risks: Mobile Money and the Dilemmas of Digital Exposure in Urban Cameroon

Primus M. Tazanu

Index