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Africans have embraced Western culture with the olive branch and the future prospect for indigenous African cultural practices is uncertain especially with respect to the present and future generation of youths who should be the custodian of living cultures. Word of mouth was the normative form of interpersonal communication. Then came telephones and Internet, and the shift in communication became radical. These are media that should serve to strengthen traditional cultures, but on the contrary they are seen as vehicles to promote Western cultures at the expense of local ones.
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Langmia, K. (2016). Road to Cyberculture in Tropical Africa. In: Globalization and Cyberculture. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47584-4_4
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