SUMMARY This Briefing argues that social media evidently did not provide the platforms for democratic struggles and the transformation of the political economy of voting during the 2015 general elections in Nigeria. Arguably, only the trade union movements such as the Nigerian Labour Congress formed a vibrant vanguard for democratic struggles challenging neoliberal policy and state hegemony.

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The state of the state: institutional transformation, capacity and political change in South Africa, by Louis A. Picard, Johannesburg, Wits University Press, 2005, 390 pp., £26.50 (paperback), ISBN 9781868144198 'Colonialism in Africa included a cultural hegemony that fractured pre-colonial institutions.' (p. 15) 'By 1999, the most pressing problem facing the Government of National Unity was its own bloated and corrupt public service. ' (p. 278)

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