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SUMMARY:Book launch with Nanjala Nyabola - in conversation with Dr Duncan 
 Omanga (CGHR) - Nanjala Nyabola\, writer\, indepentent researcher and poli
 tical analyst
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CONTACT:Romy Schirrmeister
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a pre-book launch with Nanjala Nyabola\, the autho
 r of the forthcoming _"Digital Democracy\, Analogue Politics: How the Inte
 rnet Era is Transforming Kenya"_ (ZED books/African Arguments\, 2018). \n\
 nFrom the upheavals of recent national elections to the success of the #My
 DressMyChoice feminist movement\, digital platforms have already had a dra
 matic impact on political life in Kenya – one of the most electronically
  advanced countries in Africa. While the impact of the Digital Age on West
 ern politics has been extensively debated\, there is still little apprecia
 tion of how it has been felt in developing countries such as Kenya. \nDigi
 tal Democracy\, Analogue Politics explores the drastic efforts being made 
 by elites to contain online activism\, as well as how ‘fake news’\, a 
 failed digital vote-counting system and the incumbent president's recruitm
 ent of Cambridge Analytica contributed to tensions around the 2017 electio
 ns. Reframing digital democracy from the African perspective\, Nyabola’s
  ground-breaking work opens up new ways of understanding our current globa
 l online era.\n\n*Nanjala Nyabola* is a writer\, independent re-searcher a
 nd political analyst currently based in Nairobi\, Kenya. Her work has appe
 ared in numerous publications including Foreign Policy\, Foreign Affairs\,
  Al Jazeera\, World Politics Review\, as well as chapters in edited collec
 tions. Nanjala holds a BA in African Studies and Political Science from th
 e University of Birmingham\, an MSc in Forced Migration and an MSc in Afri
 can Studies\, both from the University of Oxford\, which she attended as a
  Rhodes Scholar\, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.\n
LOCATION: Room SG2\, Alison Richard Building\, Sidgwick Site\, 7 West Road
 \, Cambridge\, CB3 9DT
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