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The need to establish stable democratic rule in the countries of Sub-Saharan Africa has recently
been accentuated in the context of overcoming the ailments eroding African societies, such
as ethnic violence, gender inequality, neopatrimonialism, ineffective governance and mass
levels of poverty. However, despite the continuous calls for democratization on behalf of the
international community, the majority of the countries in the region is still characterized
as widely undemocratic. This state of affairs, in turn, necessitates a deeper scrutiny of the
patterns of democratization in Sub-Saharan Africa, with a particular emphasis on the study
of the endogenous and exogenous factors with a potential for producing a positive impact
on the demand for democracy. Following the events of the Arab spring, digital globalization
in the form of Internet and social media use may be hypothesized to represent one of such
factors. This study rests on the hypothesis whereby there is a correlation between social
media and Internet use, on the one hand, and the demand for democracy, on the other. Using
the latest Afrobarometer merged dataset, a multivariate logistic regression was carried out
for Mali and Sudan to establish a correlation, or a lack thereof, between the intensification of
digital globalization and the increase in the demand for democracy in these countries. Based
on the results obtained, conclusions were drawn regarding the role of digital globalization in
the democratization process Mali and Sudan.
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