Colouring inside the Politically Personal

'The greater battle for Africa is for honest and earnest intellectual inquiry. It is about decolonizing knowledge about the continent’ – Nanjala Nyabola, Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics The rebellion is palpable. Technology is shifting power dynamics and providing a platform to create new identities and ideas of self in reaction and resistance to what went before. Against the white-washed agenda-driven narratives on Africa; against the singular brush stroke that paints an Africa that c

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