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Cyberculture, Cybersubculture, and Africa

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The culture of a people is their identity. Once that culture withers away or floats like a balloon being drifted by the forces of the wind, they cease to be relevant. That is the situation in the continent with the influx of Western cybernetic culture. A new culture normalizes the old culture by strengthening it meaningfully. A new culture does not sweep the old one away. It accommodates and hybridizes with it to create harmony that can withstand foreign domination.

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Langmia, K. (2016). Cyberculture, Cybersubculture, and Africa. In: Globalization and Cyberculture. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47584-4_3

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