AFRICA IN FOCUS >> Coming up on 5 August, 2014: "Africa & Social Media: Blogging; Activism; and the Future"

From The Trials & Tribulations of a Freshly-Arrived Denizen...of Ghana Mon Aug 4 2014, 18:40:00

Africa & Social Media: Blogging; Activism; and the Future

If someone were to be documenting Ghana's young history of its foray into Social Media, one might refer to the 1 July demonstration, which triggered the hashtag #Occupyflagstaff, as one of the examples of Ghana's foray into activism. Activism, because many months after the so-called "Arab Spring", many have questioned when sub-Saharan Africa would have its own Spring.

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