Social media have enhanced and reshaped alternative media in Africa. It was unsurprising, for example, that the February 2016 edition of New African magazine dedicated its cover to protesters from South Africa, under the heading ‘The #ashtag generation: Inside the new protest movements’. It referred to hashtags such as #RhodesMustFall, #FeesMustFall and #ZumaMustFall as having played a critical role in shaping the struggles from below (Nyamnjoh, 2016). [...
