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Digitalization and the Field of African Studies

Digitalization and the Field of African Studies

de Bruijn, Mirjam

Paperback

Series: Carl Schlettwein Lecture, Book 12

AnthropologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 3905758989
ISBN13: 9783905758986
Publisher: Basler Afrika Bibliographien
Published: Feb 25 2019
Pages: 46
Weight: 0.17
Height: 0.10 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Urbanization in Africa also means rapid technological change. At the turn of the 21st century, mobile telephony appeared in urban Africa. Ten years later, it covered large parts of rural Africa and - thanks to the smartphone - became the main access to the internet. This development is part of technological transformations in digitalization that are supposed to bridge the urban and the rural and will make their borders blurred. They do so through the creation of economic opportunities, the flow of information and by influencing people's definition of self, belonging and citizenship. These changes are met with huge optimism and the message of Information and Communications Technologies for Development (ICT4D) for Africa has been one of glory and revolution. Practice, however, reveals other sides. Increasingly, academic publications show that we are facing a new form of digital divide in which Africa is (again) at the margins.

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