In June 2019, Google announced plans to connect Africa to Europe through an undersea internet cable project named Equiano. As a techno-commercial platform, Google’s gesture warrants scrutiny and propels this essay’s analyses of the political connections of Internet spaces that also enable a visual turn in the scholarship of African history. Using the Google search engine and Facebook, Yékú and Ojebode stress the embeddedness of digital technologies in cultural meanings that include visual narratives that visibilize government’s ahistoricism. They conclude by foregrounding the digital labors of Nigerian digital subjects who deploy historical photographs on Facebook as expressions of performative nostalgia.

2019 年 6 月，谷歌宣布计划通过名为 Equiano 的海底互联网电缆项目将非洲与欧洲连接起来。作为一个技术商业平台，谷歌的姿态值得仔细审查，并推动了本文对互联网空间政治联系的分析，这也促成了非洲历史学术的视觉转变。使用谷歌搜索引擎和 Facebook，Yékú 和 Ojebode 强调数字技术在文化意义中的嵌入性，包括视觉叙事，使政府的非历史主义可见。最后，他们将尼日利亚数字主体的数字劳动置于前台，他们在 Facebook 上部署历史照片作为表演怀旧的表达。