Transnational hashtag protest movements and emancipatory politics in Africa: A three country study
This study explores three of sub-Saharan Africa’s hashtag movements: Zimbabwe’s #ZimbabweanLivesMatter, Eswatini’s #EswatiniLivesMatter and Nigeria’s #EndSARS hashtags. Theoretically, we rely on the transnational alternative digital public sphere and hashtag activism to understand how social media...
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| description | This study explores three of sub-Saharan Africa’s hashtag movements: Zimbabwe’s
#ZimbabweanLivesMatter, Eswatini’s #EswatiniLivesMatter and Nigeria’s #EndSARS hashtags.
Theoretically, we rely on the transnational alternative digital public sphere and hashtag activism to understand how social media acted as a meeting place for mobilization and building cross boundary pollination and unitary movements. This investigation relied on a combination of virtual ethnography and purposive sampling as methodological approaches. Thematic analysis was the analytical tool employed with four themes informing this investigation: democratisation and human rights, transnational solidarity, states’ response to hashtag movements and use of parody accounts as a counter hegemonic strategy. The study found that these hashtags and movements achieved a modicum of ‘success’ by forcing some of Africa’s enduring dictatorships to make piecemeal concessions of varying degrees. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b4d9a79f71eb4a38914dd1762ec551552024-03-02T13:45:56ZdeuFreie Universität BerlinGlobal Media Journal: German Edition2196-48072022-02-01112https://doi.org/10.22032/dbt.51029Transnational hashtag protest movements and emancipatory politics in Africa: A three country studyTrust Matsilele0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7668-7641Shepherd Mpofu1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5924-5721Mbongeni Msimanga2Lungile Tshuma3https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6654-0841Cape Peninsula University of TechnologyUniversity of LimpopoUniversity of JohannesburgUniversity of JohannesburgThis study explores three of sub-Saharan Africa’s hashtag movements: Zimbabwe’s #ZimbabweanLivesMatter, Eswatini’s #EswatiniLivesMatter and Nigeria’s #EndSARS hashtags. Theoretically, we rely on the transnational alternative digital public sphere and hashtag activism to understand how social media acted as a meeting place for mobilization and building cross boundary pollination and unitary movements. This investigation relied on a combination of virtual ethnography and purposive sampling as methodological approaches. Thematic analysis was the analytical tool employed with four themes informing this investigation: democratisation and human rights, transnational solidarity, states’ response to hashtag movements and use of parody accounts as a counter hegemonic strategy. The study found that these hashtags and movements achieved a modicum of ‘success’ by forcing some of Africa’s enduring dictatorships to make piecemeal concessions of varying degrees.https://www.db-thueringen.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/dbt_derivate_00055614/GMJ22_MATSILELE_ET_AL_Transnational_Hashtag_protests_movements.pdf#endsars#zimbabweanlivesmatterzimbabwenigeriaeswatini |
| spellingShingle | Trust Matsilele Shepherd Mpofu Mbongeni Msimanga Lungile Tshuma Transnational hashtag protest movements and emancipatory politics in Africa: A three country study Global Media Journal: German Edition #endsars #zimbabweanlivesmatter zimbabwe nigeria eswatini |
| title | Transnational hashtag protest movements and emancipatory politics in Africa: A three country study |
| title_full | Transnational hashtag protest movements and emancipatory politics in Africa: A three country study |
| title_fullStr | Transnational hashtag protest movements and emancipatory politics in Africa: A three country study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Transnational hashtag protest movements and emancipatory politics in Africa: A three country study |
| title_short | Transnational hashtag protest movements and emancipatory politics in Africa: A three country study |
| title_sort | transnational hashtag protest movements and emancipatory politics in africa a three country study |
| topic | #endsars #zimbabweanlivesmatter zimbabwe nigeria eswatini |
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