![]() ![]() The findings reveal that the youth and political leaders use social media for digital skilling and literacy digital political site for leisure entertainment and engagement as affective publics promote direct and indirect digital democracy, despite network connectivity issues and the high unemployment rate. This 7 months ethnography, explores how the youth in the Ohangwena Regional Youth Forum use mobile social media to participate in regional and local politics by using participant observations, semi-structured interviews and content analysis of seven Facebook pages and two WhatsApp groups. Studies from the global north have established a vibrant scholarship about the transformative influence these digital platforms have on direct democracy with limited empirical evidence whether this applies to contexts beyond the west. ![]() In the last five years, Namibia has experienced an increase in the presence of people on social media platforms, creating various debates on its impact on citizen engagement in the political sphere. ![]()
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