Communication Rights in Africa: Emerging Discourses and Perspectives

Introduction: Communication Rights in Africa: Theoretical and Practical Considerations Part I: Cultural and Minority Rights 1: Language-Cultural Barrier in Ubang Community: A Critical Assessment of the Communication Rights of Women and the Girl-Child 2: Silicon Savannah or Digitising Marginalisation? A Reflection of Kenya's Government Digitization Policies, Strategies and Projects 3: Please do not call it human right: a Southern Epistemological perspective on the digital inclusion of people with disabilities in South Africa 4: The Interdependence of Communication, Political, and Socio-Economic Rights: Examining the Lived Experiences of Digitally Marginalised Netizens Before and During the COVID-19 Lockdown in Lagos State, Nigeria. Part II: Digital Citizenship 5: Cabo Delgado Tambem e Mocambique: The Paths of Youth Digital Activism in a Restrictive Context 6: Citizen journalism and the entrenchment of communication rights in Zimbabwe Part III: Freedom, Censorship and Intellectual Property Rights 7: 'The right to tell my story as I please': Regulation and self-censorship in the Nigerian film industry 8: A critical review of intellectual property rights: The case of Nigeria 9: Internet shutdowns in semi-authoritarian regimes: The case of Cameroon 10: Fake news v Freedom of expression. Legislating media trademarks infringements on Social Media Platforms in Kenya and South Africa Part IV: Politics of Digital Infrastructures 11: Politics of Digital Infrastructures in the Global South: The Case of #DataMustFall Campaign in South Africa 12: Silence and Silent the SoroSoke Generation: The Politicisation of Social Media in Nigeria