Globalisation has provoked complex reactions including re-imaginations of nations, cultures, identities and politics. This panel seeks to make sense of contestations of global hegemony in Africa as articulated through media and other means including new ideologies such as Afro-radicalism and nativism which have often been dismissed as signs of epistemological error and manifestations of false consciousness rather than genuine reverse-discourses.
(Re-)imagining
home, homeliness and nation-state: The Kenyan 'digital' Diaspora and the
constructions of identities online during the 2007 post-election crisis
