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With Internet penetration rates exponentially increasing in Africa, we can no longer question the volcanic impact social media and networks can make in Africa.

We have already seen the impact they have made in North Africa, with the revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya. But, many people still question whether anything like this could happen in Sub-Saharan Africa. Discoveries by Nnenna Nwakanma, a prominent social media expert show that things are happening in strange places in Sub-Saharan Africa and that the potential of social media and networks in citizen policy engagement can only be likened to a pregnancy whose term is already in Sub-Saharan Africa.