  This paper provides an assessment of experiences and understanding of digital
technologies from within an African place. It provides philosophical
reflections upon the introduction and existence - appropriation - of digital
technologies. Digital technologies are inherently linked to a colonialising
power and, in general, unaligned with local, African ways of knowing. Imported
technologies are set in modern, universalised doing and unsensitive to the
importance of aligned being in African contexts. Sensitivities, it is argued,
can be fostered by a decolonial turn, where focus shifts from the individual to
the community.
