My initial experience with computers began when my Dad bought our first family desktop, which we used to play Zuma games. When the adults complained that my siblings and I were getting addicted to games, we either switched to Marvis Bacon, as it was popular for teaching kids how to type quickly, or we found solace in Microsoft Encarta Kids, which exposed us to knowledge beyond Nigeria in multimodal forms. As a teenager, the first social media platform I interacted with was 2go, an app owned by Africans, which helped me frame questions on African digital agency and technology. These…
Author: Oluwafunmilola Fadairo
Oluwafunmilola Fadairo
Funmilola Fadairo is a PhD student in the Language, Writing, and Rhetoric track within the English Department at the University of Maryland. Her research explores how technological and multimodal forms depict African sensibilities across time.