Digital iterations of African literary texts present scholarly opportunities to interrogate how literature produced and circulated on digital media becomes entangled with the capitalist politics of datafication. In the data paradigm described in the article, literary representations are subject to the workings of neoliberal capital and the constraints of algorithmic systems. Through a postcolonial approach that puts the digital humanities in conversation with African literary studies, the article transcends how digital technologies have evidently changed African literature and tackles the costs of digital literary cultures and networks from Africa. I examine data relations through an African literary culture, which, in the current moment, indisputably exhibits the attainment of new and complex elements including the integration of digital affordances in the production and critical reception of texts. How African literary expressions in a digital age circulate in market-driven digital platforms like Facebook and YouTube makes the subjects of data capitalism or the coloniality of data as important for African literature as the expanded literary networks enabled by the digital.

非洲文学文本的数字迭代提供了学术机会，以探讨文学在数字媒体上的生产和传播如何与数据化的资本主义政治纠缠在一起。在本文描述的数据范式中，文学表现受制于新自由主义资本的运作和算法系统的约束。通过将数字人文学科与非洲文学研究进行对话的后殖民方法，本文超越了数字技术如何明显改变非洲文学并解决成本问题来自非洲的数字文学文化和网络。我通过非洲文学文化审视数据关系，在当前时刻，它无可争议地展示了新的和复杂的元素的实现，包括将数字可供性整合到文本的生产和批判性接收中。数字时代的非洲文学表达方式如何在 Facebook 和 YouTube 等市场驱动的数字平台上传播，这使得数据资本主义或数据的殖民性对非洲文学而言与数字化支持的扩展文学网络一样重要。