WHAT OTHERS SAY: Why the youth won’t tweet the revolution
What you need to know:
The ripples set off by the Arab Spring, also led later in 2011 with the ouster, and gruesome lynching, of the continent’s most entrenched strongman, Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi, after he had been on the throne for 41 years! The revolutionary winds didn’t cross the Sahara desert very well. By the time they got to sub-Saharan Africa, they had lost a bit of steam, and leaders too had managed to reposition to cover themselves.
