Aufsatz(elektronisch)1. Mai 2021
A Hashtag Revolution in Nigeria
In: Current history: a journal of contemporary world affairs, Band 120, Heft 826, S. 183-188
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Abstract
Exploding in October 2020 and reverberating internationally, protests against police brutality under the hashtag #EndSARS exposed enduring patterns and emergent trends in Nigerian politics and society. This article examines various elements of the protests to advance hypotheses about the culture of social media, the weakening of old forms of solidarity, and the rise of a new generation of activists steeped in new rules and technologies of civic engagement. #EndSARS marks the possible ascent of an inorganic civil society with profound implications for Nigerian democracy.
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