Tag Archive: Social Media

Xenophobia in SA, Social Media’s Immediacy in Modifying African Behaviour

This recent week, if I owned Facebook, Google or WhatsApp and sitting far, far away from South Africa, Southern Africa and Africa itself I...

DRC: social media to communicate and insult one another

By inventing social media (Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter), the idea was to facilitate communication to humanity. Connect people separated by thousands of kilometers, share images...

Uganda Implements the Social Media Tax & Mobile Money Tax

A few weeks ago,  one of the Facebook groups (Cake Shop Uganda)  that I am a part of launched a massive campaign. The Facebook...

The folly of Uganda’s mobile money tax

It almost seems someone at the top of the food chain wants mobile money to fail in Uganda. That can be the only reason...

Using social media to solve local $1 problems – the Digital Humanitarian

I saw that tweet and so I asked fellow social good practitioners what they thought – Sartaj explained a few things. In his words:...

Kenyans On Twitter Won The Battle Against Koffi Olomide But Losing The War. Here’s Why

The recent deportation of famed 60-year-old Congolese rumba star, Koffi Olomide, after he was filmed apparently kicking a female member of his band at...

Running despotism on a chip: Why we Must Speak Out on Internet Freedoms

In the last three months, I have attended two major events and participated in discussions on free speech on the internet. On July 10,...

Museveni gets ‘Meme-fied’

Freedom of expression is a lot of things – and for this digital savvy age: cartoons and memes have become a crucial part communicating...

Assessing the impact of Social Media on Political Communication & Civil Engagement in Uganda

Happy New Year! his year starts on a very interesting note for Ugandans as political campaigns are underway in the country – as political...