Digital African Literatures and the Coloniality of Data

Abstract Digital iterations of African literary texts present scholarly opportunities to interrogate how literature produced and circulated on digital media becomes entangled with the capitalist politics datafication. In data paradigm described in article, representations are subject workings neoliberal capital constraints algorithmic systems. Through a postcolonial approach that puts humanities conversation studies, article transcends technologies have evidently changed tackles costs cultures networks from Africa. I examine relations through an culture, which, current moment, indisputably exhibits attainment new complex elements including integration affordances production critical reception texts. How expressions age circulate market-driven platforms like Facebook YouTube makes subjects capitalism or coloniality as important for expanded enabled by digital.