Infrastructural Sovereignty in the Black AtlanticIn June 2019, Google announced a new undersea fiber-optic cable line connecting Portugal and South Africa and named it Equiano after Olaudah Equiano, an eighteenth-century Black man who was kidnapped from his Igbo village and sold into slavery. This article reads Google's infrastructural initiative against the grain of Equiano's autobiographical narrative to locate how the violent afterlives of slavery and colonialism manifest in and undergird Internet infrastructure projects today.
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