“Am I Your Coequal?!”: Memes and Changing Meanings in the Digital Subversion of Ghanaian Hierarchies

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Can a meme change language? A single shout that went viral in 2014 has been used to protest and subvert social and political hierarchies in Ghana, shifting everyday speech. Read more in Signs and Society: https://t.co/MGfaBC6BfS https://t.co/kLsSnUhTq2

How does technology affect the vocabulary of protest? This new article from Signs and Society explores how memetic circulation affects the socio-political life in Ghana. Read more: https://t.co/JzLTVYMXcw https://t.co/IMrSRNgEto

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