Citizenship and the Diaspora in the Digital Age Farooq Kperogi and the Virtual Community
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Toyin Falola is professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
<p>This is truly a book social media enthusiasts, social commentators and critics can relate to. It talks about the ingredients for building an online audience and also exposes discussions of the socio-cultural and political situations of the country from a digital vantage point. Deeply enchanting and irresistibly compelling, this book is an extraordinary story that will stay with you long after you have turned the final page because it is educative and informative.</p>
- Babajide Kolade-Otitoju, Journalist, Political and Security Affairs analyst, Lagos, Nigeria,
<p>Language is at the heart of some of the most contentious realities of our time from information technology to restrictions on speech, from disinformation on social media to opinions as facts and deepening polarization. Falola’s Citizenship and the Diaspora in the Digital Age could not have been better timed to help us interrogate how and what we engage on in social media and everyday speech as we struggle for new ways of being and governing in Nigeria. A potent reminder that language is not static and of Ngugi wa Thiongo’s advise that we “Use English instead of English using us."</p>
- Ayisha Osori, author of Love Does Not Win Elections and Director, EVPO, Open Society Foundation,
<p>This is a book of context and culture, considering Nigerian citizens and the diaspora holistically in the digital age. With the much engagement on blog sites by individuals and socio-political commentators, cultural explanations drawn from interactions with hybrid cultures makes room for critical and comparative analysis across Nigeria’s academic, political and social landscapes. Farooq Kperogi’s socio-political critiques and comments are engaged here to explore how virtual interactions between Nigeria and Diaspora have evolved in the recent past. How feasible is virtual nation-building? Can state-sponsored and state-supported virtual communities breed a more cohesive Nigeria? Here is a must read!</p>
- Sharon Omotoso, University of Ibadan,
In Citizenship and the Diaspora in the Digital Age: Farooq Kperogi and the Virtual Community, Toyin Falola examines how the members of the Nigerian diaspora create a virtual community and instrumentalize the digital age to speak about the nation and its failures, possibilities, and promises. This book depicts individuals' relationships with society and how the world's progressive shift toward technology and globalization does not disregard the concept of society and its members. As a result of this shift, people have been migrating to new places without giving up their citizenship in their home countries. This book explores how migrants are focused on the idea of a virtual community, examines how citizens' roles have evolved through time, and displays society's essential principles in this light.
Furthermore, it evaluates social commentaries enhanced by the dynamics of the digital age, such as societal issues like education in Nigeria, the question of democracy, challenges facing the country, and the development of a national language. Many of these societal challenges are examined in this book from the perspective of Farooq Kperogi, who has conducted extensive studies and published on the above themes. This is balanced against emerging facts, Nigerians' positions, and disregarded realities. Kperogi's relentless writings on Nigeria make him a preeminent figure whose positions are valuable to the understanding of modern Nigeria.
This is a comprehensive analysis on Nigeria, its people, and emerging contemporary digital trends through the expanding concept of the virtual community. It uses Farooq Kperogi, a prominent leader in the virtual community, and his writings as a lens to foreground the discussion.
Preface
Acknowledgments
Prologue
Introduction
Part A: Context And Culture
Chapter 1: Building an Online Audience
Chapter 2: Philosophical Foundations
Chapter 3: Black Cultures
Part B: Critical Issues
Chapter 4: The Decay of Pre-Tertiary Education
Chapter 5: ASUU and the Decay in Tertiary Education
Chapter 6: Comparing Higher Education in Nigeria and America
Chapter 7: Politicizing English: Media Communications in A Democracy
Chapter 8: The English of The Nation
Chapter 9: Comparative “Englishes”
Chapter 10: Societal Decadence
Chapter 11: A Nation on The Boil
Part C: Conclusion
Chapter 12: Assessment, Expansion and Evaluation
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About the Author
This series collates and curates studies of Africa in its multivalent local, regional, and global contexts. It aims fundamentally to capture in one series historical, contemporary and multidisciplinary studies which analyze the dynamics of the African predicament from deeply theoretical perspectives while marshalling empirical data to describe, explain, and predict trends in continuities and change in Africa and in African studies. The books published in this series represents the multiplicity of voices, local and global in relation to African futures. It not only represents diversity, but also provides a platform for convergence of outstanding research that will enliven debates about the future of Africa, while also advancing theory and informing policy making. Preference is given to studies that deliberately link the past with the present and advances knowledge about various African nations by extending the range, breadth, depth, types and sources of data and information existing and emerging about these countries. The platform created proceeds from the assumption that there is no singular 'African experience', nor is it possible to, in any way, homogenize the identities, histories, spaces and lives of African people. This series seeks to engage in the broader conversations about African futures in specific ways. It will foreground: how the African past connects with the future; the causes and courses of the current predicament of African underdevelopment and de-development; the connections and disconnections between the experiences of various African countries; bilateral and multilateral relations including sub-regional and regional movements and institutions in which African states play key roles and which determine political and economic outcomes for various other nations; comparative studies which shed light on the extraversion of the continent, as well as issues related to globalization, the African diaspora and the disciplinary and transdisciplinary frames for studying these pan-African elements of African Studies; and multiple frames and methodologies for understanding these issues. We welcome proposals for the new series. To discuss potential book proposal, please contact Toyin Falola (toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu).
Series Editors: Toyin Falola (The University of Texas, Austin) and Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso (Brandeis University)
Advisory Board: Alexius Amtaika, Rhodes University, South Africa, June Bam Hutchison, University of Cape Town, South Africa, Gloria Emeagwali, Central Connecticut State University, USA, Bonny Ibhawoh, McMaster University, Canada, Alice J. Kang, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA , Henry B. Lovejoy, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA, Peace A. Medie, University of Ghana at Legon, Ghana, Fatima Sadiqi, University of Fez, Morocco, Mobolanle Ebunoluwa Sotunsa, Babcock University, Nigeria, Tim Stapleton, University of Calgary, Canada, Aribidesi Usman, Arizona State University, USA,
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Toyin Falola is professor at the University of Texas at Austin.