Chasing Lions

Wojciechowska, Anna; Hamidi, Foad; Lucero, Andrés; Cauchard, Jessica R.

doi:10.1145/3357236.3395481

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“…The major issue with such a way of thinking in HCI4D is that it has become hegemonic as it is now framed in the name of doing socially good research that stereotype African condition as dystopia and Western situations as utopia. Other examples of saviourism mentality of postcolonial design thinking can be identified in the design and deployment of technological interventions meant for specific African settings (e.g., [112,113,146,198]). This often takes the form of engaging in bungee research activities that export pseudo-solutions to problems that might not even exist [55] and unfortunately by the same mechanisms that define and marginalize them in the first place.…”

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No More “Solutionism” or “Saviourism” in Futuring African HCI: A Manyfesto

Adamu

2023

ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact.

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Research in HCI4D has continuously advanced a narrative of ‘lacks’ and ‘gaps’ of the African perspective in technoscience. In response to such misguided assumptions, this paper attempts to reformulate the common and perhaps unfortunate thinking about African practices of design in HCI4D – i.e., largely as a function of African societal predicaments and Western technocratic resolutions. Through critical reflection on a range of issues associated with post-colonialism and post-development, I examine the possibilities that various historical tropes might offer to the reinvention of the African perspective on innovation. This leads to the consideration of how engaging in critical discussions about the future dimensions of African HCI can allow for grappling with the effect of the coloniality of being, power and knowledge. Developing on the ideas of futuring as a way of dealing with the complexities of the present – in this case the coloniality of the imagination - the paper ends by discussing three tactical propositions for ‘remembering’ future identities of African innovation where the values of autonomy are known and acted upon.

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