Media, Social Movements, and Protest Cultures in Africa: Hashtags, Humor, and Slogans
Lungile Tshuma · Trust Matsilele · Shepherd Mpofu · Mbongeni Msimanga
Aug 2024 · Rowman & Littlefield
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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.
About the author
Lungile Tshuma is researcher in the Centre for Communication and Culture at the Universidade Catolica Portuguesa.
Trust Matsilele is senior lecturer at Birmingham City University.
Shepherd Mpofu is associate professor of media and communication at the University of South Africa.
Mbongeni Msimanga is postdoctoral fellow at the Johannesburg Institute of Advanced Study.
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