New Handbook Chapter Analyzes Sociodigital Exploitation of Africa
ChinasaTOkolo · x · 2026-09-14
Chinasa T. Okolo, a noted AI policy researcher, announces her chapter "Datafication and Postcolonial Discontinuities: Analyzing the Sociodigital Exploitation of Africa" in the Handbook of Critical Data Studies.
The chapter takes a postcolonial lens to structural exploitation in Africa's datafication, examining how data extraction and the AI industry create uneven impacts for the Global South.
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