Abstract
ABSTRACT The “mobile revolution” in Africa celebrates mobile telephony as reconfiguring political mobilization and transforming individual and collective political agency. Beyond politics, scholars tend to focus on the critical role of mobile phones in economic advancement in Africa. Less consideration has been given to the use of technology by governments to control civil and political dissent, and the complex nature of “slacktivism,” “clicktivism” or “armchair activism” impacting African youth agency. This paper examines disenfranchised African youths’ complicated adaptation of digital technology for political mobilization against parallel repression by governments. I use as case studies the fall of President Yahya Jammeh of The Gambia and President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe.
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