Overview
- Presents how digital technologies reshape political landscapes across Africa with in-depth case studies
- Provides insights into political mobilisation, digital identification, and electoral campaigning in Africa
- Sheds light on the theoretical implications of digital politics through comprehensive, empirical research
Part of the book series: Studies in Digital Politics and Governance (SDPG)
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About this book
This book explores digital politics from an African perspective. It sheds light on how digital technologies are reshaping political landscapes across Africa, and examines the implications and analytical consequences. Each chapter focuses on different aspects of political dynamics, navigating the nexus between the analogue and digital worlds.
Drawing on case studies from East, West and South Africa, the book provides in-depth analyses of political mobilisation, digital identification, medical drones, electoral campaigning and the monetisation of digital platforms. Theoretical discussions include African communitarianism, digital indigeneity, democratisation and changes in political discourse.
Based on a comprehensive theoretical framework and grounded in empirical research, this book offers critical reflection and a deeper understanding of digital politics. It will appeal to students, researchers and scholars of African studies, media and digital studies, African politics, political science and area studies, as well as policy-makers interested in a better understanding of digital politics in Africa.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Monika Christine Rohmer is a Postdoctoral Researcher with the project Philosophizing in a Globalized World (GloPhi) at the University of Hildesheim (Germany). She has been a lecturer at the University of Bayreuth, where she obtained her PhD in the framework of the Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS). At the University of Bayreuth, she was the assistant of the chairs African and Afrophone Philosophies and Afrikanistik II. Monika is a transdisciplinary scholar combining intercultural philosophy, applied linguistics, the study of verbal arts, postcolonial theories, and political thought.
Claudia Favarato is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. She earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Lisbon, Portugal, where she also served as an Assistant Lecturer. She is an Associate Researcher at the Harvard Association for Global Political Thought and has been a visiting researcher at SOAS, University of London, UK. Her research focuses on political theory, particularly comparative political theory and African philosophy. In her research, she explores the intersections between African and global political thought, examining humanness, political relations, and the digitalisation of politics. Favarato's work applies posthuman theories to understand the digital dimension of contemporary political conditions, including the reformulation of African communitarianism.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Digital Politics in African Perspective
Book Subtitle: Technological Transformations and Political Dynamics
Editors: Monika Christine Rohmer, Claudia Favarato
Series Title: Studies in Digital Politics and Governance
Publisher: Springer Cham
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2026
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-032-31486-4Due: 11 September 2026
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-032-31489-5Due: 11 September 2027
eBook ISBN: 978-3-032-31487-1
Series ISSN: 2524-3926
Series E-ISSN: 2524-3934
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 163
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 14 illustrations in colour
Keywords
- Digital politics
- Digital inequalities
- Political mobilisation
- Digital divide
- African perspectives
- Electoral campaigning
- Digital technologies
- Political spaces
- Citizenship
- Political participation
- Digital protests
- Activism
- Communitarianism
- Mozambique
- Ghana
- Sierra Leone
- Nigeria
- Digitisation
- Democratisation