{"id":9758,"date":"2025-12-23T13:01:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T13:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?page_id=9758"},"modified":"2026-01-16T11:50:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T11:50:42","slug":"digitalities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/iads.unilag.edu.ng\/amrc\/?page_id=9758","title":{"rendered":"DIGITALITIES"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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DIGITALITIES<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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The aim of this Research Section (RS) is to explore digital knowledge systems that are increasingly central to the making of (new) world orders, and their implications for Africa and for African Studies. This (RS) will build on critical analytical frameworks in African Studies to closely investigate material aspects and practices of digitalisation, including their implications for society at large. These material aspects include the labour required to mine minerals and maintain algorithmic systems, the extraction of data from people and environments, and the dumping of electronic waste. The RS will examine how the digital intersects with and inspires African creative expressions (orature, art), and how African knowledges inform contested concepts such as virtual, digital, and intelligent with new meanings, as well as new forms of cross-border interaction such as digital restitution and collaborations in university, museum and governmental contexts.<\/h6>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Bringing to bear insights from Science and Technology Studies (STS), Anthropology, History, Sociology, Informatics, Data Science, and Religious Studies, we will examine the promises and dreams of technoscientific modernity as well as the perils that come with anonymity, disinformation and surveillance, contending with the social and political contexts of the digital in Africa through three lines of inquiry, namely (1) Archiving, (2) (Self)-Identification and (3) Knowledge Innovation. Questions of disinformation, political propaganda and the in\/authenticity of digital persons and objects link RS Digitalities and RS In\/securities. Equally, issues of local and centralised strategies of surveillance used by the state and technology corporations, wherein personal data has extractable value, link RS Digitalities with RS Accumulation.<\/h6>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Spokesperson<\/strong>:<\/h4>

Natewind\u00e9 Sawadogo natewinde.sawadogo@yahoo.fr<\/p>

Members:<\/h4>

AMRC Bayreuth:<\/strong> Jia Hui Lee, Mirco Sch\u00f6nfeld, Katharina Schramm, R\u00fcdiger Seesemann, Lena K\u00e4stner, Cassandra Mark-Thiesen<\/p>

AMRC Lagos :<\/strong> Bilqis Alayaki, Tunde Ope-Davies,<\/p>

AMRC Ouagadougou:<\/strong> Cyriaque Par\u00e9, Nat\u00e9wind\u00e9 Sawadogo,<\/p>

AMRC Rhodes:<\/strong> Chika Nnadozie<\/p>

Other:<\/strong> Joy Owango (Africa PID Alliance Kenya)<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DIGITALITIES The aim of this Research Section (RS) is to explore digital knowledge systems that are increasingly central to the making of (new) world orders, and their implications for Africa and for African Studies. This (RS) will build on critical analytical frameworks in African Studies to closely investigate material aspects and practices of digitalisation, including their implications for society at large. These material aspects include the labour required to mine minerals and maintain algorithmic systems, the extraction of data from people and environments, and the dumping of electronic waste. The RS will examine how the digital intersects with and inspires African creative expressions (orature, art), and how African knowledges inform contested concepts such as virtual, digital, and intelligent with new meanings, as well as new forms of cross-border interaction such as digital restitution and collaborations in university, museum and governmental contexts. Bringing to bear insights from Science and Technology Studies (STS), Anthropology, History, Sociology, Informatics, Data Science, and Religious Studies, we will examine the promises and dreams of technoscientific modernity as well as the perils that come with anonymity, disinformation and surveillance, contending with the social and political contexts of the digital in Africa through three lines of inquiry, namely (1) Archiving, (2) (Self)-Identification and (3) Knowledge Innovation. Questions of disinformation, political propaganda and the in\/authenticity of digital persons and objects link RS Digitalities and RS In\/securities. Equally, issues of local and centralised strategies of surveillance used by the state and technology corporations, wherein personal data has extractable value, link RS Digitalities with RS Accumulation. Spokesperson: Natewind\u00e9 Sawadogo natewinde.sawadogo@yahoo.fr Members: AMRC Bayreuth: Jia Hui Lee, Mirco Sch\u00f6nfeld, Katharina Schramm, R\u00fcdiger Seesemann, Lena K\u00e4stner, Cassandra Mark-Thiesen AMRC Lagos : Bilqis Alayaki, Tunde Ope-Davies, AMRC Ouagadougou: Cyriaque Par\u00e9, Nat\u00e9wind\u00e9 Sawadogo, AMRC Rhodes: Chika Nnadozie Other: Joy Owango (Africa PID Alliance Kenya)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iads.unilag.edu.ng\/amrc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9758"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iads.unilag.edu.ng\/amrc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iads.unilag.edu.ng\/amrc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iads.unilag.edu.ng\/amrc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iads.unilag.edu.ng\/amrc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9758"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/iads.unilag.edu.ng\/amrc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10886,"href":"https:\/\/iads.unilag.edu.ng\/amrc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9758\/revisions\/10886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iads.unilag.edu.ng\/amrc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}