By Katrina Kaiser, EFF | June 15, 2012
Internet shutdowns, content filtering, arrests of
bloggers, and online surveillance in North Africa have been headline news for
the past year and a half, but internet issues in the rest of the African continent
haven’t received quite as much press coverage.
This silence is partly because
there is simply less internet penetration south of the Sahara, but there may
also be a paralyzing current of opinion whereby stories that highlight human
rights issues or a lack of democracy in the region are either dismissed as old
news or written off as paternalistic.








