Abstract

These few remarks were triggered by Teju Cole's magnificent keynote lecture “Do African Digital Natives Wear Glass Skirts?” They do not constitute an answer, far from it, but rather what his words conjured for me then and there, in 2015, in Bayreuth. I was reading on the Anthropocene, the Capitalocene and the Anthrobscene and reflecting on the afterlives of our digital selves. What is the Global South saying about the digital economy that is racialized, capitalist, environmentally destructive and gendered? What are the dreams, the utopias that are being imagined today in digital Africa?

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