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  • Sudanese Women’s Groups on Facebook and #Civil_Disobedience: Nairat or Thairat?(Radiant or Revolutionary?)

  • Nada Mustafa Ali
  • Journal:
    African Studies Review / Volume 62 / Issue 2 / June 2019
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    29 May 2019, pp. 103-126

  • The first two decades of the twenty-first century witnessed expanded digital connectivity, with important political implications, evident in the way activists used Facebook and Twitter to mobilize for political change in North Africa and beyond in 2010/2011, and in Sudan, including in 2018 and 2019. These platforms are also often sites where women may articulate narratives on the body and the body politic. Through digital ethnographic research, this study explores social and cultural narratives on everyday body aesthetics that Sudanese women articulate in selected groups on Facebook. I argue that the role some of these groups played in organizing civil disobedience in Sudan in November 2016 disrupts the binary inherent in the question: Nairat or Thairat?