This article argues that in the era of neo-liberal globalization there has been intensification in the movement of goods, people, and capital across national boundaries. Our ethnographic studies of Nigerian immigrants in New Zealand point to the dispersal of Africans with very active partisan roles in their homeland democratic developments. This African transnationalism, as will be seen in the case of Nigeria, is made possible and sustained by developments and transformations in the media where today new Internet-based media enable Africans abroad to play a central, partisan, and participatory role in democratic developments in the same way as those residing on the continent. The article will also argue that through the unfolding mediation new terms and acts of citizenship have been imposed on transmigrant Africans.

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党派和参与者：新西兰的民主、新媒体和尼日利亚侨民

本文认为，在新自由主义全球化时代，商品、人员和资本的跨国界流动加剧。我们对新西兰尼日利亚移民的人种学研究表明，非洲人的分散在其祖国的民主发展中发挥了非常积极的党派作用。正如尼日利亚的例子所示，这种非洲跨国主义是通过媒体的发展和变革而得以实现和维持的，今天新的基于互联网的媒体使海外的非洲人能够在非洲的民主发展中发挥核心、党派和参与性的作用。与居住在非洲大陆的人一样。文章还将指出，通过不断展开的调解，新的公民条款和行为已强加给非洲移民。