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Cover image of the book *Pan-African Futurism*

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October 17, 2025 00:46:03

Guests: Royston, Reginold

Host: Alegi, Peter

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Episode 143

Redemption Tech in Ghana and the Diaspora

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.

00:00:00 - 00:01:23 Introduction
00:01:24 - 00:09:05 Journalism background and Ghana
00:09:06 - 00:16:50 Visualizing the African Internet
00:16:51 - 00:23:24 Activist-software developers and politics
00:23:25 - 00:30:22 Digital ethnography
00:30:23 - 00:35:31 Diaspora and Pan-African Futurism
00:35:32 - 00:45:01 Podcasting as deep listening
00:45:02 - 00:46:03 Outro