This 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.
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
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