Disrupting Africa
Technology, Law, and Development
- Author: Olufunmilayo B. Arewa, Temple University, Philadelphia
- Date Published: July 2021
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781316610039
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In the digital era, many African countries sit at the crossroads of a potential future that will be shaped by digital-era technologies with existing laws and institutions constructed under conditions of colonial and post-colonial authoritarian rule. In Disrupting Africa, Olufunmilayo B. Arewa examines this intersection and shows how it encompasses existing and new zones of contestation based on ethnicity, religion, region, age, and other sources of division. Arewa highlights specific collisions between the old and the new, including in the 2020 #EndSARS protests in Nigeria, which involved young people engaging with varied digital era technologies who provoked a violent response from rulers threatened by the prospect of political change. In this groundbreaking work, Arewa demonstrates how lawmaking and legal processes during and after colonialism continue to frame contexts in which digital technologies are created, implemented, regulated, and used in Africa today.
Read more- Discusses the need for disrupting legal and other hangovers from colonialism to enable better future paths for people in Nigeria and elsewhere in Africa
- Provides important, comparative examples of the impact of technology in developing countries
- Examines lawmaking contexts in colonial and post-colonial Africa to enable a better understanding of the gaps between law on the books and law in practice
Awards
- Winner, 2022 STAIR Best Book Award, International Studies Association
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- Date Published: July 2021
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781316610039
- length: 300 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 153 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.522kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Introduction – colonialism and Africa's future paths
2. Colonialism, governance and law
3. Relationships and accountability
4. Legal imperialism and institutions
5. Language, authority and law
6. Technology disruption and digital colonialism
7. Nigerian princes, start-up companies and potential future paths
8. Technology, precarity and protest
9. Elites, ornamentation and future visions
10. Colonial portfolios, monopolies and competition
11. Conclusion – ghosts, dreams and future paths.
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