ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a picture of an undemocratic, colonial, and exclusive model of the information society produced by a discriminatory Western modernity project. The digital divide is complex, multidimensional, ideological, and informed by variegated local and global experiences. The chapter explores this argument through a decolonial critique of the digital divide. In decolonial and border gnosis, universal access to computers in Africa cannot be viewed simply as the panacea to the digital divide problem. The import of the decolonial and border critique to the digital divide is that it creates possibilities for a new loci of enunciation that recasts access to the Internet within a cultural and linguistic turn empowering to Africa and the Global South. Marxian political economy theories have shed some light on how the Internet is 'tightly intertwined with the global economy'. Decolonial theory acknowledges the subalternity and border thinking of the non-Westerners since they are rejected in the center.
