This course looks at the ways in which digital technology shapes interactions and imaginations of Africa globally. Key themes that will be covered include societal transformations stemming out of the introduction and increasing use of the internet, mobile phones, and new media as well as gendered and racialized digital divides in relation to access to social services, such as health, education, housing, water, and sanitation. A particular attention will be given to the impact of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and the ways the digital space has been an arena on how Africans and their countries have responded to the pandemic.
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