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Online rage towards white communities and privileged classes can be read as fatigue with the postcolonial state.
Young Nigerians holding up a banner at the 1-year memorial of the Lekki shootings.
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Young people’s use of technology such as Twitter shows that they are interested in politics and governance and have found a way to participate.
“shadowy groups” are using coordinated and elaborate tactics to spread disinformation on social media.
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Some states are adopting subtle and sophisticated ways of controlling or shaping political agendas and discussion.
The feeling of desertion by Nigeria’s federal government has not left the region that was defined as Biafra during the country’s civil war.
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Until the conditions that led to the Nigeria-Biafra war are resolved, the debate on the viability of one Nigeria will continue to arise.
Entrepreneurs at this popular Lagos cane furniture market could do a lot more for their business with the use of social media.
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Nigerian small business owners highlight the factors that limit full potential of social media use in commerce.
Angolan dance troupe Fenómenos do Semba.
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During the coronavirus pandemic the Jerusalema dance challenge enacted a way for communities to connect - repetitive enough to be picked up and varied enough to tease.
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Despite same-sex relations being criminal, social media is a space to come out and speak back to homophobia for the Nigerian tweeters in the study.
Tik Tok’s popularity has raised eyebrows in some countries.
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Young people continue to find new ways to connect on social media, in spaces that are increasingly hard for governments to regulate.
New media is setting the tone in Kenya.
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Across Africa, mainstream media have traditionally been the unrivalled custodians and originators of the public agenda. But this year social media took over as a new regime of information.