Feminist digital citizenship in Africa

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dc.contributor.authorBosch, Tanja
dc.contributor.authorRoberts, Tony
dc.contributor.editorBosch, Tanja
dc.contributor.editorRoberts, Tony
dc.date.accessioned2026-05-06T14:04:21Z
dc.date.available2026-05-06T14:04:21Z
dc.date.issued2025-12-30
dc.description.abstractFeminist Digital Citizenship in Africa: Agency, Rights and Resistance, edited by Tanja Bosch and Tony Roberts (Zed Books, Bloomsbury, 2025), is the first edited volume authored entirely by African feminist scholars to document the continent's emerging wave of digital citizenship. The book theorises feminist digital citizenship as the use of mobile and internet technologies, particularly social media, to participate in civic and political life in ways that advance gender rights, bodily autonomy, and sexual freedoms long suppressed within mainstream public spheres. Ten country-specific case studies spanning Anglophone, Francophone, and Lusophone Africa, including Nigeria, Zambia, South Africa, Guinea, Egypt, Mozambique, Malawi, Sudan, and Ethiopia, examine episodes of feminist contention in which digital tools are mobilised to circumvent patriarchal editorial control in legacy media and political institutions, generating counter-publics where marginalised voices articulate rights claims directly. The volume develops a "digital dialectic" framework that holds in tension the productive affordances of digital platforms, including the capacity to build safe spaces and sustain transnational solidarity, against their concurrent use by patriarchal actors to conduct surveillance, disinformation, and online gender-based violence. Chapters draw on intersectional analysis attentive to gender, race, sexuality, class, and coloniality, with sustained attention to LGBTQ+ struggles and transgender online solidarity practices. The introductory chapter situates the case studies within a critique of white Western digital feminism and articulates a conformist-reformist-transformist framework for differentiating modes of feminist digital action. Building on the editors' earlier volume Digital Citizenship in Africa: Technologies of Agency and Repression (2023), the collection contributes to digital media studies, African studies, gender and queer studies, and citizenship theory. The book is published open access under a Creative Commons licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) through Bloomsbury Open Collections.
dc.identifier.apacitationBosch, T., & Roberts, T. (2025). <i>Feminist digital citizenship in Africa</i>. Great Britain: Zed Books. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/43196en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationBosch, Tanja, and Tony Roberts. <i>Feminist digital citizenship in Africa</i>. Great Britain: Zed Books. 2025. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/43196.en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationBosch, T. & Roberts, T. 2025. <i>Feminist digital citizenship in Africa</i>.Great Britain:Zed Books. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/43196.en_ZA
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-3505-0052-5
dc.identifier.ris TY - Book AU - Bosch, Tanja AU - Roberts, Tony AB - Feminist Digital Citizenship in Africa: Agency, Rights and Resistance, edited by Tanja Bosch and Tony Roberts (Zed Books, Bloomsbury, 2025), is the first edited volume authored entirely by African feminist scholars to document the continent's emerging wave of digital citizenship. The book theorises feminist digital citizenship as the use of mobile and internet technologies, particularly social media, to participate in civic and political life in ways that advance gender rights, bodily autonomy, and sexual freedoms long suppressed within mainstream public spheres. Ten country-specific case studies spanning Anglophone, Francophone, and Lusophone Africa, including Nigeria, Zambia, South Africa, Guinea, Egypt, Mozambique, Malawi, Sudan, and Ethiopia, examine episodes of feminist contention in which digital tools are mobilised to circumvent patriarchal editorial control in legacy media and political institutions, generating counter-publics where marginalised voices articulate rights claims directly. The volume develops a "digital dialectic" framework that holds in tension the productive affordances of digital platforms, including the capacity to build safe spaces and sustain transnational solidarity, against their concurrent use by patriarchal actors to conduct surveillance, disinformation, and online gender-based violence. Chapters draw on intersectional analysis attentive to gender, race, sexuality, class, and coloniality, with sustained attention to LGBTQ+ struggles and transgender online solidarity practices. The introductory chapter situates the case studies within a critique of white Western digital feminism and articulates a conformist-reformist-transformist framework for differentiating modes of feminist digital action. Building on the editors' earlier volume Digital Citizenship in Africa: Technologies of Agency and Repression (2023), the collection contributes to digital media studies, African studies, gender and queer studies, and citizenship theory. The book is published open access under a Creative Commons licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) through Bloomsbury Open Collections. CY - Great Britain DA - 2025-12-30 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town ED - Bosch, Tanja ED - Roberts, Tony KW - feminism KW - media studies KW - Africa LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PP - Great Britain PY - 2025 SM - 978-1-3505-0052-5 T1 - Feminist digital citizen in Africa TI - Feminist digital citizen in Africa UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/43196 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/43196
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationBosch T, Roberts T. Feminist digital citizenship in Africa. Great Britain: Zed Books; 2025.http://hdl.handle.net/11427/43196en_ZA
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherZed Books
dc.publisher.departmentCentre for Film and Media Studies
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanities
dc.publisher.locationGreat Britain
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectfeminism
dc.subjectmedia studies
dc.subjectAfrica
dc.titleFeminist digital citizenship in Africa
dc.typeBook
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