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Title Digital communications at crossroads in Africa : a decolonial approach / Kehbuma Langmia, Agnes Lucy Lando, editors
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, Springer Nature Switzerland AG, [2020]
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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 180 pages : some color illustrations
Contents Intro -- Foreword -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Boxes -- 1 Seshu nu per ānkh: The Ancient Kemetian Genesis of Digital Communication -- Introduction -- Africancentric Methodology: Very Briefly -- The Kemetian Genesis of Digital Communication -- Contemporary Uses of Kemetian Digital Communication -- Advancing Kemetian Digital Communication -- Conclusion -- References -- 2 Digital Communications: Colonization or Rationalization? -- Background -- Africa and the Effects of Colonization -- Communication in Africa and the Conditioned Dynamics
Digital Communications and Africa Today -- Rationalization: Vision of Africa and Effective Use of Digital Communications -- Digital Communication and Mental Aspects of African "Culture" -- Cultural Behavior/Practices and Digital Communication -- Material Aspects of Culture -- Africa: Encapsulating the Use of Digital Communications -- References -- 3 Digital Communication in Africa at Crossroads: From Physical Exploitation in the Past to Virtual Dominance Now -- Introduction -- Linking Colonialism to Africa's Current Underdevelopment and the Role of Communication
The Colonial Root of Africa's Underdevelopment -- From Eurocentric Communication to Classical Colonialism in Africa -- Digital Communication in Africa -- The State of the Digital Communication Landscape -- Prospects and Problems of Digital Communication -- Where Africa Stands at the Crossroads of Digital Communication -- Infrastructure -- Markets -- Sovereignty -- Digital Communication (Here Comes the Chokehold) -- Theorizing Digital Communications in Africa -- The Future of Digital Communication in Africa -- Conclusion -- References
4 Africa at Development Policy and Practice Crossroads in the Digital Era: Navigating Decolonization and Glocalization -- Introduction -- Colonial and Neo-colonial Paradigms of Development -- Colonial Legacy in Cultural Development Policy -- Colonial Legacy in Economic Development Policy -- Dependency Paradigm -- Capitalization Paradigm -- Trickle-Down Paradigm -- Development Policy Options for a Digital Age -- From Globalization to Glocalization -- From Involvement to Participation -- From Concentration to Diffusion -- Conclusion -- References
5 Pax-Africana Versus Western Digi-Culturalism: An Ethnomethodological Study of Selected Mobile African Apps -- Introduction/Background -- Analytical Frames -- Lenali App -- M-Pesa App -- Esoko App -- Conclusion -- References -- 6 Africans and Digital Communication at Crossroads: Rethinking Existing Decolonial Paradigms -- Introduction -- Digital Communication in Africa -- Procedures/Findings -- Focus Group Discussions of the Graduate Students -- Why Kenyans Adopt the Western Ways of Dressing -- Proposed Solution as Per the Graduate Students
Summary Digital communication as it is practiced in Africa today is at a crossroad. This edited collection takes that crossroad as its starting point, as it both examines the complicated present and looks to the uncertain future of African communication systems. Contributing authors explore how western digital communication systems have proliferated in the African communication landscape, and argue that rich and long-cherished African forms of communal, in-person communication have been increasingly abandoned in favor of assimilation to western digital norms. As a result, future generations of Africans born on the continent and abroad may never recognize and appreciate African systems of communications. Acknowledging that globalized digital communication systems are here to stay, the volume contends that in order to comprehend the past, present, and future of African communications, scholars need to decolonize their approach to teaching and consuming mediated and in-person communications on the African continent and abroad
Notes In-Depth Interviews of 10 Adjunct and 10 FullTime Faculty
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Subject Digital communications -- Africa
Communication and technology -- Africa
Communication and culture -- Africa
Communication -- Africa -- Western influences
Communication and culture.
Communication and technology.
Digital communications.
Africa.
Form Electronic book
Author Langmia, Kehbuma.
Lando, Agnes Lucy.
ISBN 9783030424046
3030424049