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Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics: How the Internet Era is Transforming Kenya: African Arguments

Autor Nanjala Nyabola
en Paperback – 15 dec 2018
From the upheavals of recent national elections to the success of the #MyDressMyChoice feminist movement, digital platforms have already had a dramatic impact on political life in Kenya - one of the most electronically advanced countries in Africa. While the impact of the Digital Age on Western politics has been extensively debated, there is still little appreciation of how it has been felt in developing countries such as Kenya, where Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp and other online platforms are increasingly a part of everyday life. Written by a respected Kenyan activist and researcher at the forefront of political online struggles, this book presents a unique contribution to the debate on digital democracy. For traditionally marginalised groups, particularly women and people with disabilities, digital spaces have allowed Kenyans to build new communities which transcend old ethnic and gender divisions. But the picture is far from wholly positive.Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics explores the drastic efforts being made by elites to contain online activism, as well as how 'fake news', a failed digital vote-counting system and the incumbent president's recruitment of Cambridge Analytica contributed to tensions around the 2017 elections. Reframing digital democracy from the African perspective, Nyabola's ground-breaking work opens up new ways of understanding our current global online era.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781786994318
ISBN-10: 1786994313
Pagini: 216
Ilustrații: 1 bw table, 1 bw map, 4 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Editura: ZED BOOKS
Colecția Zed Books
Seria African Arguments

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Nanjala Nyabola is a Kenyan writer, humanitarian advocate, and political analyst currently based in Nairobi. She is a frequent columnist at Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, Al Jazeera, the Guardian, and other publications.

Recenzii

“Offer(s) insights on how digital developments are shaping politics in contemporary Kenya. . . . Nyabola’s execution and writing are clear and sharp. This well-researched work marshals illustrative stories of social media in Kenya, making it an easy, quick read. . . . Nyabola’s book is a necessary addition to the growing but still small body of work on social media in Africa and what it means for politics.”

“A timely and hugely important work. It chronicles how digital disruption is also an African emancipation, allowing a generation to leapfrog from the so-called Third World into the First and into an exciting beyond.”

“Nyabola’s important new book offers a nuanced account of how the global processes transforming our politics and our societies are being experienced in Kenya.”

“Incisive, deft, and innovative, this book describes viral trends and critically expands the scholarship on Kenyan politics while bringing the social histories of marginalized Kenyans into sharper focus.”

“In this highly accessible and timely account, Nyabola moves Kenya and Kenyans from the margins of analysis to the very center, revealing how local realities help to bring out both the worst and best of the new digital age.”

“Anchored in an eloquent grasp of Kenyan history, Nyabola maps the contours of advances, innovations, and regressions across Kenya’s digital sphere. This is essential reading for understanding contemporary Kenya.”

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