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Images and voices from digital Africa. Part II, Mobile apps for the illiterate: knowledge production and self-learning among the Yoruba peoples in the Republic of Benin
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Abstract Mobile phones and web digital tools contribute to the personal development of the individual and his or her capacity to develop initiatives e. g. for economic growth. Yet, many people cannotbenefit from new technologies as digital services in sub-Saharan Africa are mostly configured in foreign langu... view more
Mobile phones and web digital tools contribute to the personal development of the individual and his or her capacity to develop initiatives e. g. for economic growth. Yet, many people cannotbenefit from new technologies as digital services in sub-Saharan Africa are mostly configured in foreign languages. Illiteracy and language barriers remain a major challenge for digitalization inAfrica. However, the case of Yoruba illiterates in the central Republic of Benin shows that indigenous people are innovative and create new procedural knowledge. They have developed alternative strategies to benefit from information and communications technology (ICT). Based on approximately 50 interviews with traders, peasants, art craft (wo)men, and members of convents, my ethnographic research explores how the Yoruba people of Benin utilize mobile phones in their mother tongue.... view less
Keywords
Africa; illiteracy; new technology; digitalization; learning
Classification
Interactive, electronic Media
Free Keywords
App
Document language
English
Publication Year
2019
Page/Pages
p. 50-51
Journal
TATuP - Zeitschrift für Technikfolgenabschätzung in Theorie und Praxis / Journal for Technology Assessment in Theory and Practice, 28 (2019) 2
Issue topic
Digitalization in the Global South / Digitalisierung im Globalen Süden
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14512/tatup.28.2.s50
ISSN
2567-8833
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed