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This collection explores diverse protest cultures in Sub-Saharan Africa, delving into motivations, tactics, and responses to protests. It sheds light on post-colonial regimes' brutality and highlighting movements striving for societal change.
List of contents
Introduction: Contesting Africa: A Theoretical Appreciation of Media, Social Movements and Protest Cultures
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
About the Editors and Contributors
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Edited by Lungile Tshuma; Trust Matsilele; Shepherd Mpofu and Mbongeni Msimanga - Contributions by Kunle Adebajo; Raheemat Adeniran; Lorenzo Dalvit; Temitope Opeyemi Falade; Abit Hoxha; Solomon Kebede; Nkosini A. Khupe; Tânia Machonisse; Blessing Makwambe
