African nations are at different stages of overall Internet engagement. Some have growing numbers of new users; others have a more experienced online audience.

Three recent academic publications analyze the Internet habits of 300 users in rural Macha, Zambia.

Since 2009, Facebook has gradually become the most visited website in nearly all nations with Alexa.com traffic data.

According to one source, only a handful of African countries had Twitter users in mid-2007, whereas all but three (Monaco, San Marino, and Vatican City) European nations had registered users on the site. Most African users were from either South Africa or Egypt, a statistic that mirrors Internet penetration rates …