DIGITALIZATION AND THE FIELD OF AFRICAN STUDIES

44pp., illus., maps, paperback, Carl Schlettwein Lecture 12, Basel, 2019

In this lecture Mirjam de Bruijn reflects on two decades of research into the effects of rapid technological change in West and Central Africa, and how these changes influence the relations between urban and rural Africa and between Africa and the rest of the world, and hence the field of African Studies in the 21st century.

Mirjam de Bruijn is Professor of Contemporary History and Anthropology of Africa at Leiden University. She is co-editor of The Social Life of Connectivity in Africa (with Rijk van Dijk) and Side@Ways: marginality and communication in Africa (with Inge Brinkman and Francis Nyamnjoh).