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Reginold Royston (University of Wisconsin Madison) on his new book, Pan-African Futurism: Ghana and the Paradox of Technology for Development (University of California Press, 2025). He delves into the “digital divide” between Global North and South and how Ghana's activist-software developers and digital diaspora are using IT for economic reasons and also to gain greater political autonomy. A discussion of Royston's digital ethnographic method and research on African podcasting concludes the interview.
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Reginold Royston (University of Wisconsin Madison) on his new book, Pan-African Futurism: Ghana and the Paradox of Technology for Development (University of California Press, 2025). He delves into the “digital divide” between Global North and South and how Ghana's activist-software developers and digital diaspora are using IT for economic reasons and also to gain greater political autonomy. A discussion of Royston's digital ethnographic method and research on African podcasting concludes the interview.