Era or error of transformation? Assessing afrocentric attributes to digitalization.

Digital transformations in Africa Africa, with its (at least) 54 countries, evidently, is far from being a monolithic continent. She has lived, lectured and carried out research in various countries in Africa and Asia and published extensively in international journals and anthologies on topics such as media development, conflict reporting, digital journalism and gender and the media. Social media are often expected to facilitate more equal participation in civic engagement across genders and countries, and an interesting question here is whether technological transformations in Africa helped issues related to gender and patriarchy? Through a study of 10 countries across, Africa, Asia, America and Europe, Brandtzaeg ([10]) finds that the gender differences in civic engagement that exist offline to a large degree are replicated and reinforced on social media. [Extracted from the article]