Media, Social Movements, and Protest Cultures in Africa
Hashtags, Humor, and Slogans
Media, Social Movements, and Protest Cultures in Africa
Hashtags, Humor, and Slogans
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Edited by Lungile Tshuma, Trust Matsilele, Shepherd Mpofu and Mbongeni Msimanga, Media, Social Movements, and Protest Cultures in Africa: Hashtags, Humor, and Slogans provides a rich array of protest cultures in Sub-Saharan Africa, delving into the motivations for protests, how protests are carried out and how those targeted by protests try to undermine the protesting movements. Organized into three parts, this book examines social media and social movements, online protest strategies, and media texts used in various protest movements within Sub-Saharan Africa. The contributors shed light on the brutality of various post-colonial regimes in Africa while also giving the reader hope for the current movements that seek to wrestle their societies from the jaws of autocratic leaders. This book offers a theoretically rich and methodologically diverse engagement of protest cultures in countries like Zimbabwe, Nigeria, and Ethiopia. The wide tapestry of how these protests are formulated and executed speaks to Africa's diversity and dynamism. This book makes an important intellectual contribution on social and political movements and is relevant to policy makers and researchers in the social sciences and digital humanities.
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Table of Contents
Lungile Tshuma, Trust Matsilele, Shepherd Mpofu and Mbongeni Msimanga
Part I: Social Media and Social Movements
Chapter 1: Violence as A Decolonizing and (De)humanizing Force, and Social Media(ted) Protests in Africa
Shepherd Mpofu
Chapter 2: Disrupting Patriotic Discourse in Zimbabwe: Reading Evan Mawarire’s #This Flag as Counter-Hegemony
Blessing Makwambeni
Chapter 3: Testing the Illusory Truth Effect: An Analysis of Comments to Nigerian Army’s “fake news” Tweets on Lekki #EndSARS Shootings
Raheemat Adeniran and Kunle Adebajo
Chapter 4: #VoetsekANC: (un)Civil Disobedience as Protest Action in South Africa’s Twittersphere
Trust Matsilele and Blessing Makwambeni
Chapter 5: #EndSARS: The Role of Social Media Influencers in Raising Awareness of Police Brutality in Nigeria
Temitope Opeyemi Falade and Lungile Tshuma
Part II: Online Protest Strategies
Chapter 6: Online Protests and Government Countermeasures in Zimbabwe: A Decolonial Perspective
Tawanda Mukurunge and Lorenzo Dalvit
Chapter 7: #I DON’T PAY HIDDEN DEBTS: An Analysis of Public Integrity Center (CIP) Digital Communication Campaign in Mozambique
Tânia Machonisse
Chapter 8: Of Protests and Satire: Representations of #EndSARS Brutality in Selected Nigerian Hip-Hop Music
Ruth Karachi Benson Oji
Chapter 9: Ironic Activism and Social Justice: A Case Study of Political Satire and Social Media in Zimbabwe
Mbongeni Msimanga
Part III: Media Texts Production
Chapter 10: Protesting for Change: Ethiopia’s Diasporic Media and the Fight for Democracy
Solomon Kebede and Abit Hoxha
Chapter 11: Gukurahundi Memory, Subversive Pleasures, and Protest Cultures in Zimbabwe
Mphathisi Ndlovu and Nkosini A. Khupe
Chapter 12: Theorising Graffiti as a Novel Alternative Public Sphere in Zimbabwe’s Contested Politics
Nyasha Cefas Zimuto
Chapter 13: Publishing as Revolutionary Tools from Pre-Independence to Post-independence Kenya
Job Mwaura
Chapter 14: Photographs, Protest and Memory: A Case of #Blacklivesmatter in South Africa
Lungile Tshuma
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| Published | 19 Aug 2024 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 306 |
| ISBN | 9781666970142 |
| Imprint | Lexington Books |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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