Hashtags: Social Media, Politics and Ethnicity in Nigeria

Egbunike does not write as an expert looking in and analysing from the outside but as a member of society reflecting on his own use of social media and those of others. 

In one of the chapters in which he reflects on his early use of Facebook, he describes how Facebook reconnected him with an old classmate who he had practically forgotten—just like the rest of us. In other chapters, he reflects on weightier topics such as how social media can be used to further polarise an already polarised country. 

What we end up with, therefore, is a book that allows us to, first, realise the power and versatility of social media and, second, to consider our own use of these media.