• Lee Nxumalo

iShowSpeed’s Africa tour is widely celebrated as respectful and refreshing, yet it operates within a long tradition of racialized spectacle that turns Africa into content and Blackness into performance.

• Tahany Maalla

The war in Sudan shows how during conflict, the internet is as critical as food or medicine.

• Naila Aroni

Digital activism is playing a significant role in amplifying the impact of the #RejectFinanceBill2024 and #RutoMustGo protests, but how effective can it ultimately be?

• Khanya Mtshali

The theft dispute between Onezwa Mbola and Nara Smith reveals the consumerist undertones behind content for women in the online creative economy.

• William Shoki

Whether or not Twitter survives should be irrelevant to those committed to building a democratic public sphere.

• Boima Tucker

Tracing the digital contours of the settler colony helps us understand how old inequalities will shape a future with artificial intelligence.

• Bulelani Jili

Is Africa following China into a techno-dystopian future?

• Greer Valley

The blinding privilege of South Africa’s ‘white’ middle and upper class which has found new means of subjugation: online community groups.

• Ts'eliso Monaheng

• Dylan Valley

Whether there will be an "Awkward Black Girl" movie or not, Issa Rae has impacted black television without ever being on television.

• Boima Tucker

• Cláudio Silva

It marks the first time that videos went truly viral in a country in which only about 5% of the population has access to the internet.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Boima Tucker

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs
• Davy Lane

Long before football blogging became commonplace and banal, Davy Lane wrote about football politics as a fan. Brilliantly.

• Sonja Sugira

Does it sometimes seem like all technology and internet-related projects in and on Africa have to serve some grand purpose?