In Kenya technology entrepreneurs and makers have to invest their work and emotions in order
to re-script their peripheral positionalities within technocapitalism and make Kenya a place
for technology development. Based on ethnographic research in makerspaces and co-working spaces
in Nairobi Alev Coban argues that postcolonial technology entrepreneurship is neoliberal and
inherently political work. Technology developers narratives prototypes and digital
fabrication tools unite to achieve ambiguous Kenyan futures of technocapitalist market
integration and decolonial emancipation in order to foster national well-being and disentangle
Kenya from exploitative global structures.
