MASHILO BOLOKA | Africa Day 2025: online safety and African moderators’ plight as human rights
The death of a Nigerian content moderator based in Kenya earlier this year underscores the urgency of the crisis
06 June 2025 - 04:30
With the 2025 Africa Day celebrations done and dusted in May, we must pause and reflect on the state of online safety on the continent and listen to the desperate plights of African digital platform workers, including content moderators in Kenya whose task is to keep the social media platforms clean and free from harm. This is relevant as the theme for this year’s Africa Day held on May 25 was the Year of reparation and justice for Africans and people of African descent. These issues are the core of human rights, impacting on reparation and justice that we are striving for this year. ..
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