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Social media is making serious inroads in disaster management globally, except in Africa, with countries such as the United States of America, Japan, Haiti, Australia and so on, effectively deploying social media technologies in different cycles of disaster management, particularly since 2010. To encourage disaster management stakeholders in Africa to mainstream the involvement of social media in disaster management, this study examined Africa\u2019s prospects using force-field analysis that assessed the social, financial, policy, technological and other factors that inspire or restrain the effective and comprehensive adoption of social media technologies in disaster management. 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