Seyram Avle (Incoming Fellow 2024-25)

Associate Professor, Department of Communication, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

During her time at SCAS as a Global Horizons Senior Fellow, Dr. Avle will be working on a book
tentatively titled Future Worlds: Chinese Techno Power and African Imaginaries. This book project
examines the intersection of geopolitics and digital technology development, specifically mapping and
disentangling the socio-technical practices that link Chinese and Africans via the design and uses of
AI, computing hardware, and data flows, primarily outside of state and state-sponsored projects. 
More broadly, it is a book about how the logics and discourses of Chinese technological production
intersect with African techno-imaginaries in an era of changing geo- and techno- politics.