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Disrupting Africa : technology, law, and development
- Title
- Disrupting Africa : technology, law, and development / Olufunmilayo B. Arewa.
- Author
- Arewa, Olufunmilayo B., 1964-
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
- ©2021
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- Description
- xvii, 332 pages : maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- "In the digital era, many African countries sit at the crossroads of a potential future that will be shaped by digital-era technologies with existing laws and institutions constructed under conditions of colonial and post-colonial authoritarian rule. In Disrupting Africa, Olufunmilayo B. Arewa examines this intersection and shows how it encompasses existing and new zones of contestation based on ethnicity, religion, region, age, and other sources of division. Arewa highlights specific collisions between the old and the new, including in the 2020 #EndSARS protests in Nigeria, which involved young people engaging with varied digital era technologies who provoked a violent response from rulers threatened by the prospect of political change. In this work, Arewa demonstrates how lawmaking and legal processes during and after colonialism continue to frame contexts in which digital technologies are created, implemented, regulated, and used in Africa today."--
- Subject
- Law > Social aspects > Africa, Sub-Saharan
- Law and economic development > Africa, Sub-Saharan
- Disruptive technologies > Social aspects > Africa, Sub-Saharan
- Technological innovations > Africa, Sub-Saharan
- Postcolonialism > Africa, Sub-Saharan
- Law and economic development
- Law > Social aspects
- Postcolonialism
- Technological innovations
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : colonialism and Africa's future paths -- Colonialism, governance and law -- Relationships and accountability -- Legal imperialism and institutions -- Language, authority and law -- Technology disruption and digital colonialism -- Nigerian princes, start-up companies and potential future paths -- Technology, precarity and protest -- Elites, ornamentation and future visions -- Colonial portfolios, monopolies and competition -- Conclusion : ghosts, dreams and future paths.
- Call Number
- Sc D 22-526
- ISBN
- 9781107156692
- 1107156696
- 9781316610039
- 1316610039
- LCCN
- 2021009263
- OCLC
- 1240576403
- Author
- Arewa, Olufunmilayo B., 1964- author.
- Title
- Disrupting Africa : technology, law, and development / Olufunmilayo B. Arewa.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 22-526