Wars without blood in Africa : hate speech and its consequences : editorial
Jideofor Adibe · African Renaissance · 2013
The current wave of democratization in Africa with its embedded freedom of expression, which came to many of the countries in the continent after a prolonged period of autocracy, appears to have opened up a host of bottled up feelings and emotions. During the period of autocracy, freedom of expression was muzzled and people were afraid of expressing their feelings.