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Cameroon: Diaspora-driven Cyberspace: A Platform for Civic Engagement or a Threat?

Categories: Sub-Saharan Africa, Cameroon, Digital Activism, Freedom of Speech, Politics, Technology

Dibussi asks whether the Cameroon’s Diaspora-driven cyberspace is a platform for civic engagement or a threat to the Biya regime [1]: “Simply put, the Biya regime has never viewed Cameroonian cyberspace as a viable space for civic engagement and public discourse, instead, it sees it as a threat to the regime – a space that must either be controlled, co-opted, contained, or simply coerced into submission.”