“…Readers are brought into the living remains of sites once made up of ambitious modernist architecture and art in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. From the total artworks of Art Nouveau to the aggrandizing sites of post-independence Kinshasa, Congo Style investigates the experiential qualities of man-made environments intended to entertain, delight, seduce and impress. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cryptopolitics and digital media in Africa / Victoria Bernal, Katrien Pype, and Daivi Rodima-Taylor -- Four ways of not saying something in digital Kinshasa, or, On the substance of shadow conversations / Katrien Pype -- The power to conceal in an age of social media / Simon Turner -- KOT, digital practices and the performance of politics in Kenya / George Ogola -- The "Muslim Mali" game : revisiting the religious-security-post-colonial nexus in Malian popular culture / Marie Deridder and Olivier Servais -- Algorithmic power in a contested digital public : crypto-politics and identity in the Somali conflict / Peter Chonka -- The cryptopolitics of digital mutuality / Daivi Rodima-Taylor -- "This dictatorship is a joke : Eritrean politics as tragicomedy" / Victoria Bernal -- Digital security in an African "sanctuary city" / Lisa Poggiali -- Conclusion : studying cryptopolitics / Daivi Rodima-Taylor, Katrien Pype, and Victoria Bernal…”