Youth Participation in Politics

Phiri, Sam

doi:10.4018/978-1-5225-9388-1.ch004

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“…However, in 1972, other political parties were proscribed, leaving the then governing party, the United National Independence Party (UNIP), under Kenneth Kaunda, as constitutionally the sole and only political party (Phiri 2006). Oppositional and dissenting voices were muted and proscribed, and the opposition went underground.…”

Section: Political Historymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Respect for human rights was suspended. The state of emergency, which had been declared on 12 March 1959 by the outgoing British authorities, was never lifted but re-enforced (Phiri 2006;Phiri 2019;Roberts, Hobson and Williams 2023). Human rights were violated at will and the status quo remained unchanged until the dramatic upheavals in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe transcended into Africa and Zambia from 1989.…”

Section: Political Historymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This was followed by direct colonial rule from London. Then, after independence in 1964, the country went through the eras of multi-party democracy, one-party rule, and then back to Western-style multi-party democracy with all its limitations (Phiri 2006). Since then, for the past 32 years, Zambia has had a relatively free and peaceful political environment, albeit with many economic and other social problems.…”

Section: Pre-digital Surveillancementioning

confidence: 99%

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Mapping the Supply of Surveillance Technologies to Africa: Case Studies from Nigeria, Ghana, Morocco, Malawi, and Zambia

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African governments are spending over 1US$bn per year on digital surveillance technologies which are being used without adequate legal protections in ways that regularly violate citizens’ fundamental human rights. This report documents which companies, from which countries, are supplying which types of surveillance technology to African governments. Without this missing detail, it is impossible to adequately design measures to mitigate and overcome illegal surveillance and violations of human rights. Since the turn of the century, we have witnessed a digitalisation of surveillance that has enabled the algorithmic automation of surveillance at a scale not previously imaginable. Surveillance of citizens was once a labour and time-intensive process. This provided a practical limit to the scope and depth of state surveillance. The digitalisation of telephony has made it possible to automate the search for keywords across all mobile and internet communications. For the first time, state surveillance agencies can do two things: (a) conduct mass surveillance of all citizens’ communications, and (b) micro-target individuals for in-depth surveillance that draws together in real-time data from mobile calls, short message service (SMS), internet messaging, global positioning system (GPS) location, and financial transactions. This report was produced by qualitative analysis of open-source data in the public domain. The information presented is drawn from a diverse range of sources, including open government data sets, export licence portals, procurement notices, civil society databases of surveillance contracts, press releases from surveillance companies, academic articles, reports, and media coverage. The research is organised using a typology of five categories of surveillance technology. We did not set out to detail every technology available, every company, or every supply contract. Instead, we document the main companies and countries selling digital surveillance technologies to African governments. Rather than focus on the technical functionality distinguishing each product offering, we highlight five of the most important types of surveillance technology: internet interception, mobile interception, social media surveillance, ‘safe city’ technologies for the surveillance of public spaces, and biometric identification technologies.

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Section: Political Historymentioning

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Section: Political Historymentioning

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Section: Pre-digital Surveillancementioning

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Of Elephants and Men

Phiri

Mokorosi

2020

Advances in Religious and Cultural Studies

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Ideally, social media are positive agents for modernization, empowerment, and gender equity in developing countries. This chapter scrutinizes that assumption by reflecting upon social media representation of leading Zambian women politicians at critical times in their political lives. It highlights the language used in blogs by critically examining its meanings through discourse and rhetoric analysis. Then, it is argued that social media are now extensively used to switch the tide against women occupation of social spaces. The chapter concludes that social media are avenues for hate speech and new glass ceilings and have been appropriated by patriarchy as oppressive tools in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Youth Participation in Politics

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Mapping the Supply of Surveillance Technologies to Africa: Case Studies from Nigeria, Ghana, Morocco, Malawi, and Zambia

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