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  • Literary Imaginations from Below: Crowdsourced Verse and African Literature’s Digital Publics

  • ‘Gbenga Adeoba
  • Journal:
    African Studies Review / Volume 67 / Issue 3 / September 2024
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    15 August 2024, pp. 541-567
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  • What could be called a digital turn has amplified conversations around publics, literary cultures, and African literature’s broadened genres. Drawing on conceptual frameworks and debates from literary, cultural, and media studies, Adeoba examines the literary imaginations and ekphrastic practices that emerge from the digital cultures of African Twitter users. Adeoba argues that crowdsourced verse demonstrates the creative agency of digitally connected everyday people and newer modes of sociality enabled by African poetry in digital contexts. Crowdsourced verse presents opportunities to examine the digital publics of African literature and their contributions to the body of literary works circulating in digital spaces.