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"Highlighting African digital actors' civic sensibilities and political visions of freedom, Reginold Royston confronts an entrenched Ghanaian technoculture that dispels lingering stereotypes of Africa as an anti-technological continent. A significant work of interdisciplinary scholarship that enriches multiple fields."--James Yékú, author of
The Algorithmic Age of Personality: African Literature and Cancel Culture "With clear writing and an eclectic scholarly approach, Royston emerges as a next-generation voice in African and diaspora tech and media studies. Drawing on two decades of fieldwork, this book explores how Ghanaian tech activists deploy information and communications technology to assert political agency and bridge disjunctions between the West and the Global South."--Sean Jacobs, Professor of International Affairs, The New School
"Insightful and deeply grounded, this book reveals how African diasporic communities are using digital tools not just to catch up--but to reimagine for themselves what global connectivity, development, and liberation can look like. In this vital contribution to science and technology studies and media studies, Royston centers African innovators as architects of their own digital futures."--Lori Kido Lopez, Professor of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison
About the author
Reginold A. Royston is Assistant Professor in the Department of African Cultural Studies and the Information School at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His research explores digital media, sound studies, and technology in Africa and the Black diaspora. He has been doing qualitative research on new media since 2008, initially inspired by his years as a reporter and graphics editor at
National Geographic, Village Voice Media, and Knight Ridder newspapers. He is a founding member of AI for Afrika. His work can be found at www.raroyston.com.
