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  • Chapter 16 - Digital Africas

  • from Part III - Contemporary Reconfigurations or Shifting Globalities and Positionalities
  • Edited by Jeanne-Marie Jackson, Johns Hopkins University, Cajetan Iheka, Yale University
  • Book:
    African Literature in Transition
    Published online:
    07 November 2025
    Print publication:
    20 November 2025, pp 291-308

  • Summary

    In 1995, Thabo Mbeki’s keynote address at a G7 meeting, lauded by Tim Berners-Lee, underscored the Web’s potential to revolutionize global social and political landscapes, particularly emphasizing its significance for Africa. This chapter looks at the impact of digital technology on African literature. Using Chimamanda Adichie, Binyavanga Wainaina, and Brittle Paper as anchor points, it examines how digital technology and culture are reconstituting literary audiences, making space for the emergence of new knowledge domains and transforming the production infrastructures. It concludes that digital culture is the epistemic context in which twenty-first-century African literature exhibits some of its most defining characteristics.