Feminist Digital Citizenship in Africa

Agency, Rights and Resistance

  • Open Access
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Feminist Digital Citizenship in Africa

Agency, Rights and Resistance

  • Open Access
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This open access edited collection offers the first-ever book-length volume on feminist digital citizenship in Africa. It offers multiple, theoretically grounded case studies by African researchers covering countries across the length and breadth of the continent, including non-majority-English countries such as Malawi, Mozambique, and Senegal, which tend to receive less coverage in Anglophone scholarship.

These studies newly identify uniquely African practices of digital feminist activism. In so doing, they further develop our understanding feminist digital citizenship, especially when it comes to globally relevant themes such as intersections between gender and class and between gender and religion. This leads in turn to new insights into the developmental phases and overall nature of digital social movements more generally.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Theorizing Feminist Digital Citizenship in Africa
Tanja Bosch and Tony Roberts

Chapter 1. Women's Digital Frugality: Gendered Infrastructural Practices of Connectivity within South Africa's Unequal Mobile Infrastructure
Alette Schoon and Marion Walton

Chapter 2. Dismantling Boundaries: Mozambique's Trailblazing Feminist Digital Citizenship
Dercio Tsanzana and Lissungu Mazula

Chapter 3. Beyond the Dress: The Mutation of #MyDressMyChoice Hashtag to a Feminist Movement in Kenya
Nancy Gakahu, Chris Paterson, Jacinta Maweu.

Chapter 4. Navigating Empowerment and Exclusion: Exploring Intersectional Dimensions in Sudanese Digital Feminist Activism
Maha Bashri

Chapter 5. Digital Feminist Citizenship and the Public-Private Sphere Dichotomy: Audience Reactions to Aisha Yesufu's Politics and Social Activism
Bimbo Fafowora

Chapter 6. The Rise of Nigeria's Feminist Digital Citizenship on X, Formerly Twitter
Ochega Ataguba

Chapter 7. Transformative Moments in Feminist Digital Activism in the Aftermath of the Egyptian Revolution
Manal Hassan

Chapter 8. Feminist Digital Citizenship in Malawi: The Case of Mwiza Chavura's Pro-rape Song
Jones Maweranga, Godwins Lwinga

Chapter 9. Feminist Digital Citizenship and Counter-public Spheres
Tigist Hussen

Chapter 10. Plastic Feminism on TikTok: Navigating Global Concepts in Local Contexts
Tanja Bosch

Chapter 11. #ZanuPfMustGo: Exploring the Power of 'Silent' Protest on Twitter/X
Nonhlanhla Ndlovu and Bhekinkosi Jakobe Ncube

Product details

Published Dec 11 2025
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 240
ISBN 9781350500488
Imprint Zed Books
Dimensions 234 x 156 mm
Series Digital Africa
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Tony Roberts

Tony Roberts is a Fellow at the Institute of Devel…

Anthology Editor

Tanja Bosch

Tanja Bosch is an Associate Professor of Media Stu…

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