FEMINIST DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP IN AFRICA, agency, rights and resistance

219pp., illus., paperback, Zed Books, London, 2025

ISBN: 9781350500488

This edited collection offers theoretically grounded case studies by African researchers identifying uniquely African practices of digital feminist activism.

Contributions include:

"Digital Frugality in Low-Income Communities In South Africa: Enabling Women's Citizenship of Survival" by Alette Schoon and Marion Walton

"Dismantling Boundaries: Mozambique's Trailblazing Feminist Digital Citizenship" by Lissungu Mazula and Dércio Tsandzana

"'Of Course We Are Angry': Lusaka Women and the Zambian Feminists Facebook Page" by Chishimba Kasanga and Priscilla Boshoff

"Digital Feminist Citizenship in Malawi: Mwiza Chavura's Rape Song" by Jones Maweranga and Godwins Lwinga

"Queer Feminist Digital Citizenship on Nigeria's X: The Case Of #Ujuanya" by Ochega Ataguba.

Tanja Bosch is Professor of Media Studies and Production at the Centre for Film and Media Studies, University of Cape Town; Chairperson of the African Digital Rights Network, and currently holds the position of National Research Foundation (NRF) South African Research (SARChI) Chair in Digital Media Sociology. She is author of Broadcasting Democracy: Radio and Identity in South Africa and Social Media and Everyday Life in South Africa; co-editor of Digital Citizenship in Africa and the Routledge Companion to Social Media and Politics, editor of African Journalism Studies, and associate editor of Communication Theory.

Tony Roberts is a fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, and the Principal Investigator on the GCRF-UKRI-funded African Digital Rights Network.