Media, Social Movements, and Protest Cultures in Africa

Lungile Tshuma is researcher in the Centre for Communication and Culture at the Universidade Catolica Portuguesa.Trust Matsilele is senior lecturer at Birmingham City University.Shepherd Mpofu is associate professor of media and communication at the University of South Africa.Mbongeni Msimanga is postdoctoral fellow at the Johannesburg Institute of Advanced Study.

• Introduction: Contesting Africa: A Theoretical Appreciation of Media, Social Movements and Protest CulturesLungile Tshuma, Trust Matsilele, Shepherd Mpofu and Mbongeni MsimangaPart I: Social Media and Social MovementsChapter 1: Violence as A Decolonizing and (De)humanizing Force, and Social Media(ted) Protests in AfricaShepherd MpofuChapter 2: Disrupting Patriotic Discourse in Zimbabwe: Reading Evan Mawarire’s #This Flag as Counter-HegemonyBlessing 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 AdebajoChapter 4: #VoetsekANC: (un)Civil Disobedience as Protest Action in South Africa’s TwittersphereTrust Matsilele and Blessing MakwambeniChapter 5: #EndSARS: The Role of Social Media Influencers in Raising Awareness of Police Brutality in NigeriaTemitope Opeyemi Falade and Lungile Tshuma Part II: Online Protest StrategiesChapter 6: Online Protests and Government Countermeasures in Zimbabwe: A Decolonial Perspective Tawanda Mukurunge and Lorenzo DalvitChapter 7: #I DON’T PAY HIDDEN DEBTS: An Analysis of Public Integrity Center (CIP) Digital Communication Campaign in MozambiqueTânia Machonisse Chapter 8: Of Protests and Satire: Representations of #EndSARS Brutality in Selected Nigerian Hip-Hop Music Ruth Karachi Benson OjiChapter 9: Ironic Activism and Social Justice: A Case Study of Political Satire and Social Media in Zimbabwe Mbongeni MsimangaPart III: Media Texts ProductionChapter 10: Protesting for Change: Ethiopia’s Diasporic Media and the Fight for DemocracySolomon Kebede and Abit HoxhaChapter 11: Gukurahundi Memory, Subversive Pleasures, and Protest Cultures in ZimbabweMphathisi Ndlovu and Nkosini A. KhupeChapter 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 KenyaJob MwauraChapter 14: Photographs, Protest and Memory: A Case of #Blacklivesmatter in South AfricaLungile TshumaAbout the Editors and Contributors

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.