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.

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This first-ever volume on feminist digital citizenship in Africa offers a collection of case studies by African authors from all regions of Africa.

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List Of Contributors
Acknowledgements


Chapter 1. Theorizing Feminist Digital Citizenship in Africa
Tanja Bosch And Tony Roberts
Chapter 2. Queer Feminist Digital Citizenship on Nigeria’s X: The Case Of #Ujuanya
Ochega Ataguba
Chapter 3. ‘Of Course We Are Angry’: Lusaka Women and the Zambian Feminists Facebook Page
Chishimba Kasanga And Priscilla Boshoff
Chapter 4. Keeping Each Other Safe: Transgender People’s Online Solidarity Strategies
Nyx Mclean
Chapter 5. Digital Frugality in Low-Income Communities In South Africa: Enabling Women’s Citizenship of Survival
Alette Schoon And Marion Walton
Chapter 6. #Guineennedu21esiecle and the Radical Potential of Feminist Activism in Contemporary Guinea
Clovis Bergère
Chapter 7. Transformative Moments in Feminist Digital Citizenship in Post-Revolution Egypt
Manal Hassan
Chapter 8. Dismantling Boundaries: Mozambique’s Trailblazing Feminist Digital Citizenship
Lissungu Mazula And Dércio Tsandzana
Chapter 9. Digital Feminist Citizenship in Malawi: Mwiza Chavura’s Rape Song
Jones Maweranga And Godwins Lwinga
Chapter 10. Contesting Boundaries: Gendered Citizenship and Digital Activism in Sudan
Maha Bashri
Chapter 11. Digital Feminism in Ethiopia
Selamawit Tezera Chaka

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This first-ever volume on feminist digital citizenship in Africa offers a collection of case studies by African authors from all regions of Africa.
First-ever volume on feminist digital citizenship in Africa
Digital Africa explores how digital technologies have opened new spaces for the exercise of democratic rights and freedoms in Africa and how repressive regimes have used digital technologies to monitor, diminish, or remove those rights. Taken together, these volumes offer an important, in-depth corrective to existing studies of the relations between digital technologies and social and political power, studies that until now have overwhelmingly, if not exclusively, focussed on the Global North.
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ISBN
9781350500525
Publisert
2025-12-11
Utgiver
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; Zed Books Ltd
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
240

Om bidragsyterne

Tanja Bosch Associate Professor of Media Studies and Production in the Centre for Film and Media Studies at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, where she also holds the position of Deputy Dean of Research and Postgraduate Affairs. She has published in the field of radio studies in South Africa as well as in the area of social media activism.

Tony Roberts is a Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex, where he works on digital inequalities and digital rights. He is currently the Principal Investigator on the GCRF-UKRI-funded African Digital Rights Network.