Media, Social Movements, and Protest Cultures in Africa: Hashtags, Humor, and Slogans: Kunle Adebajo: Lexington Books

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.

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

Product details

Published	19 Aug 2024
Format	Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition	1st
Extent	306
ISBN	9781666970142
Imprint	Lexington Books
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Anthology Editor

Lungile Tshuma

Lungile Tshuma is Researcher in the Centre of Comm…

Anthology Editor

Trust Matsilele

Anthology Editor

Shepherd Mpofu

Shepherd Mpofu is professor of media and communica…

Anthology Editor

Mbongeni Msimanga

Contributor

Kunle Adebajo

Contributor

Raheemat Adeniran

Contributor

Lorenzo Dalvit

Contributor

Temitope Opeyemi Falade

Contributor

Abit Hoxha

Contributor

Solomon Kebede

Contributor

Nkosini A. Khupe

Contributor

Tânia Machonisse

Contributor

Blessing Makwambeni

Contributor

Tawanda Mukurunge

Contributor

Job Mwaura

Contributor

Mphathisi Ndlovu

Contributor

Ruth Karachi Benson Oji

Contributor

Nyasha Cefas Zimuto

This wonderfully rich collection of research adds a powerful perspective to the study of media in society as an organic mechanism rather than an instrumental technology, subtly shaping the ways social movements and protest cultures have organized and evolved.

Mark Deuze, University of Amsterdam
A captivating appraisal of protest movements in Africa edited by Lungile Tshuma, Trust Matsilele, Shepherd Mpofu, and Mbongeni Msimanga, whose knowledge of the continent coupled with unwavering commitment to empiricism has made them some of the leading voices in the field. Anyone researching social movements with a transnational theoretical approach needs to read this book.

Bruce Mutsvairo, Utrecht University
Media, Social Movements, and Protest Cultures in Africa: Hashtags, Humor, and Slogans is an empirically rich volume, thick in description and illuminating examples of social movements in Africa and their mechanics of protest, ranging from their political instrumentalization of social media to the creative appropriation and use of popular cultural forms, such as music and satire. This book is a commendable addition to scholarship on protest cultures in Africa.

George Ogola, University of Nottingham