Any keen observer of social media spaces ahead of Nigeria’s upcoming presidential election cannot be in any doubt about the power that young people have to dictate the direction of national political discourse. Thanks to social media savvy young people, what started as a two-horse race is now...
23 February 2023
IDS Working Paper 595
This paper probes the relationship between sources of Covid-19 information and adherence to preventive measures in Nigeria, a context characterised by fake news, hate speech, and other forms of disinformation. While this relationship in Nigeria is relatively well studied, little discrete...
30 October 2023
African governments are spending over 1US$bn per year on digital surveillance technologies which are being used without adequate legal protections in ways that regularly violate citizens’ fundamental human rights. This report documents which companies, from which countries, are supplying which...
27 September 2023
Edited Collection
This report introduces findings from ten digital rights landscape country reports on Zimbabwe, Zambia, Uganda, Sudan, South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Ethiopia, Egypt, and Cameroon. The country reports analyse how the openings and closings of online civic space affect citizens’ digital rights.
26 February 2021
IDS Working Paper;548
The United Nations Development Programme states that women’s political participation is a necessary ingredient for a peaceful and resilient society, yet large gender gaps obstinately persist in many countries around the globe.
15 February 2021