Africa is
changing and digitisation is playing a pivotal role in it. Throughout
the whole continent, digital practices are emerging which radically
transform African societies and their worldwide perception. However,
digital infrastructures remain marked by local and global asymmetries
despite the widespread use of mobile phones. Over the course of two
years and in three African and European cities, the interdisciplinary
exhibition and research project Digital Imaginaries
took this contradictory diversity of digital phenomena as its starting
point in order to explore possible digital futures in Africa.



Texts
by Bethlehem Anteneh, Younes Baba-Ali / Aude Tournaye, Tegan Bristow,
Mehdi Derfoufi, Mamadou Diallo / Judith Rottenburg, Sunny Dolat / Njoki
Ngumi (The Nest Collective), Oulimata Gueye, Thomas Hervé, Francois
Knoetze, Sénamé Koffi Agbodjinou / Manuel Bürger, Bettina Korintenberg,
Siri Lamoureaux / Enrico Ille / Amal Fadlalla / Timm Sureau, Achille
Mbembe, Maurice Mbikayi, Julien McHardy, Christopher McMichael, Marcus
Neustetter / Mwenya Kabwe, Nanjala Nyabola, DK Osseo-Asare / Yasmine
Abbas, Tabita Rezaire, Richard Rottenburg, Daniel Sciboz, Joseph Tonda,
Michel Wahome, Philipp Ziegler