As Nigeria's Twitter ban shows, online platforms are the new battleground between governments and their critics.
Social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and WhatsApp have increasingly become a stage on which the tension between state authorities and networked dissent plays out in Africa. The recent banning of Twitter by the Nigerian government is a timely reminder of that.
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