Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics

Nanjala Nyabola is a Kenyan writer, humanitarian advocate and political analyst currently based in Nairobi, Kenya. Her writing and research focuses on refugee issues and humanitarian interventions, as well as technology and media in Africa. She is a frequent columnist at Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, IRIN, New African magazine, Al Jazeera, the Guardian, the BBC’s Focus on Africa, the Saturday Nation and other publications.

Challenges existing scholarship on ‘tech in Africa’ by exploring how state agency and the politics of offline spaces have consequences for what happens online. This beautifully written book is a must-read for all researchers and journalists writing about Kenya today.

• PrefaceIntroductionPart I: Analogue Politics1. 2007: The Violent Origins of Kenya's Digital Decade2. Avatars in the Square: Theorising the Kenyan Public Sphere3. Collision Course: Where Analogue Meets Digital4. Rattling the Snake without Getting Bitten: New Media usurping Traditional Media in KenyaPart II: Digital Politics5. An African Country in the Digital Age: The Making and Uses of #KOT6. Redefining Community: The Politics of Public Performances of Empathy7. Women at Work: Kenyan Feminist Organising on Social Media8. Politics, Predators and Profit: Ethnicity, Hate Speech and the Threat of Digital ColonialismPart III: History Not Learned From9. 2017: The Most Expensive Election in the World10. Conclusion