After all last year’s excitement about social media’s role in the Arab revolutions (“Think what Trotsky could have done if only he’d had a twitter feed rather than an armored train, blah, blah”), I’m delighted to see that protestors in Lagos are adopting a lower-tech but highly effective tactic. To wit, spreading their message via cute animals:
(H/t Teju Cole’s always-excellent twitter feed.)
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