Media, Social Movements, and Protest Cultures in Africa - by Lungile Tshuma & Trust Matsilele & Shepherd Mpofu (Hardcover)

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Book Synopsis

This collection explores diverse protest cultures in Sub-Saharan Africa, delving into motivations, tactics, and responses to protests. It sheds light on post-colonial regimes' brutality and highlighting movements striving for societal change.

Review Quotes

Media, Social Movements, and Protest Cultures in Africa: Hashtags, Humor, and Slogans is an empirically rich volume, thick in description and illuminating examples of social movements in Africa and their mechanics of protest, ranging from their political instrumentalization of social media to the creative appropriation and use of popular cultural forms, such as music and satire. This book is a commendable addition to scholarship on protest cultures in Africa.

A captivating appraisal of protest movements in Africa edited by Lungile Tshuma, Trust Matsilele, Shepherd Mpofu, and Mbongeni Msimanga, whose knowledge of the continent coupled with unwavering commitment to empiricism has made them some of the leading voices in the field. Anyone researching social movements with a transnational theoretical approach needs to read this book.

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.

About the Author

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.