Description The smartphone and social media have transformed Africa, allowing people across the continent to share ideas, organize, and participate in politics like never before.
While both activists and governments alike have turned to social media as a new form of political mobilization, some African states have increasingly sought to clamp down on the technology, introducing restrictive laws or shutting down networks altogether.
Drawing on over a dozen new empirical case studi.
Zed Books Social media and politics in africa: democracy, censorship and security, paperback/maggie dwyer
