Cryptopolitics

Victoria Bernal is a cultural anthropologist and Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. Her articles and chapters have appeared in various collections as well as in anthropological, African Studies, and interdisciplinary journals including American Ethnologist, Cultural Anthropology, American Anthropologist, Global Networks, Comparative Studies in Society and History, African Studies Review, and Political and Legal Anthropology Review.

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Introduction: Cryptopolitics and Digital Media in Africa

Katrien Pype, Victoria Bernal, and Daivi Rodima-Taylor



Chapter 1. Four Ways of Not Saying Something in Digital Kinshasa: Or, On the Substance of Shadow Conversations

Katrien Pype



Chapter 2. The Power to Conceal in an Age of Social Media

Simon Turner



Chapter 3. KOT, Digital Practices and the Performance of Politics in Kenya

George Ogola



Chapter 4. The “Muslim Mali” Game: Revisiting the religious-security-post-colonial nexus in Malian popular culture

Marie Deridder and Olivier Servais



Chapter 5. Algorithmic Power in a Contested Digital Public: Crypto-politics and Identity in the Somali Conflict

Peter Chonka



Chapter 6. The Cryptopolitics of Digital Mutuality

Daivi Rodima-Taylor



Chapter 7. “This Dictatorship is a Joke: Eritrean Politics as Tragicomedy”

Victoria Bernal



Chapter 8. Digital Security in an African “Sanctuary City”

Lisa Poggiali



Conclusion: Studying Cryptopolitics

Daivi Rodima-Taylor, Katrien Pype, and Victoria Bernal



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