Digital Youth and Social Movements (Perspectives from Nigeria)

Digital Youth and Social Movements (Perspectives from Nigeria ) is an incisive and significant book that engages the reader in a survey of three significant hashtags and social movements in Nigeria’s digital history – #OccupyNigeria(2012), #EndSARS (2020) and #Obident (2023). Essentially different from each other, but with a major commonality: they were all digitally-mediated youth movements. This book curates the generational differences among these protest movements. It presents an opportunity to reflect on how the promises of technology have been fulfilled but also how they have been thwarted by anti-democratic actors in Africa.