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Kenya: The digital activist class

Categories: Sub-Saharan Africa, Kenya, Development, Digital Activism, Economics & Business, Elections, Politics, Technology

Ethan Zuckerman discusses “the digital activist class [1]” in Kenya: “There’s a strong overlap between the emerging middle class in the developing world and the world of citizen media. Bloggers in Africa are highly educated, and generally are wealthier than the average African. (It’s not cheap, in African terms, to afford the amount of internet access you need to maintain a blog.)”