John Ndavula, St Paul’s University Social media have opened up spaces for political candidates to engage with voters in more direct ways compared to traditional forms of campaigns such as rallies, billboard advertising, and the legacy media. Social media enhance the flow of information between candidates and voters. Traditional media in contrast are expensive; the […]
Continue reading
Maggie Dwyer, University of Edinburgh and Thomas Molony, University of Edinburgh In mid-July Chad lifted its 16-month social media ban. This ended the longest social media blockage seen in any African country. The government argued that the lengthy ban was necessary for security reasons. The Chadian case highlights the way social media has increasingly been […]
Continue reading
You are a journalist and government has decided to give you 40 iron sheets. Would you accept them? That is the question being asked and debated in the northern Ugandan district of Lira, after government, through the Office of the Prime Minister, selected 25 journalists to receive 40 iron sheets each as a ‘resettlement package’. […]
Continue reading
The question of who owns the media has in recent years become a growing subject of debate and contention in Uganda. The need to address this question gained greater urgency during the 2011 elections as it emerged that access to radio, in particular, appeared to be influenced by political considerations rather more explicitly than at […]
Continue reading
