Publics in Africa in a Digital Age (Hardcover, 1)

1. Introduction: Rethinking publics in Africa in a digital age Sharath Srinivasan, Stephanie Diepeveen and George Hamandishe Karekwaivanane 2. From baraza to cyberbaraza: interrogating publics in the context of the 2015 Zanzibar electoral impasse Irene Brunotti 3. Knowledge and legitimacy: the fragility of digital mobilisation in Sudan Siri Lamoureaux and Timm Sureau 4. ‘Tapanduka Zvamuchese’: Facebook, ‘unruly publics’, and Zimbabwean politics George Hamandishe Karekwaivanane 5. Social diary and news production: authorship and readership in social media during Kenya’s 2007 elections Inge Brinkman 6. Kuchu activism, queer sex-work and "lavender marriages," in Uganda’s virtual LGBT safe(r) spaces Austin Bryan 7. Bringing The Daily Mail to Africa: entertainment websites and the creation of a digital youth public in post-genocide Rwanda Andrea Mariko Grant 8. #Whatwouldmagufulido? Kenya’s digital "practices" and "individuation" as a (non)political act George Ogola 9. News media and political contestation in the Somali territories: defining the parameters of a transnational digital public Peter Chonka 10. The limits of publicity: Facebook and transformations of a public realm in Mombasa, Kenya Stephanie Diepeveen 11. WhatsApp as ‘digital publics’: the Nakuru Analysts and the evolution of participation in county governance in Kenya Duncan Omanga 12. A tale of two publics? Online politics in Ethiopia’s elections Iginio Gagliardone, Nicole Stremlau and Gerawork Aynekulu