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Technological Determinism and African Public Diplomacy: A Conceptual Perspective on African e-Diplomacy in the Post-COVID-19 Era
Abstract
Although a galaxy of research works have focused on diplomacy in the COVID-19 period, very little attention has particularly been given to the idea of comparing the state of African digital diplomacy in the pre and the post COVID-19 period. Also, the literature available suggests that most studies on digital diplomacy in the COVID-19 period are Eurocentric and the COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity for the future growth of digital diplomacy in Africa is still virtually understudied. In view of filling the above-mentioned gap in knowledge, this chapter deploys secondary sources and observations to attain three principal objectives. First, the chapter explores the state of digital diplomacy before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Second, it examines how the pandemic positively affected the conduct of digital diplomacy in Africa, putting to question the myth of digital divide between the West and Africa. Lastly, the chapter explores implications for the practice of public diplomacy in post-COVID Africa as well as for future research on African digital diplomacy.
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