Nigeria’s Twitter Ban.
A prelude to a bloody revolution?
The banning of twitter in Africa’s largest economy took place over a month ago. Those whose businesses are inextricably linked to selling their wares online have found things pretty hard going, ever since.
The blanket ban by the Nigerian government was in retaliation to twitter’s decision to delete the post of President Muhammadu Buhari, whose incendiary comments evoked the painful, bitter memories of the civil war.
His tweet (pictured below) was in response to the agitation of a fringe group, called the indigenous people of Biafra(IPOB).
That vast numbers of people have circumvented the ban by downloading VPNs shouldn’t come as a surprise to international observers, after all, Nigerians aged 25 and under belong to the majority demographic and they are as digitally savvy as their contemporaries in the west, east and elsewhere.