**8. Ways of improving the use of social media in Sub-Saharan Africa**

There is evidence of increasing use of social media in Sub-Saharan Africa but, considering the large numbers of population size that is in the rural areas without Internet and technology infrastructures, and the challenges reported across the continent, there is an urgent need to fashion out measures to take advantage of Web technologies and social media networking sites to improve on the level of usage in the region. Improving social media usage in this paper implies the need to explore the available opportunities to use social media to address every aspect of life, security, agriculture, politics and education in Africa. Therefore, improving the use of social media to address the challenges confronting the region is the responsibility of the government and as well private bodies. The government must endure that, it provides the required infrastructures, create awareness among the citizens, particularly on relevancy and areas social media can productively use to create wealth, and make appropriate policies to create enabling environment for wide and gainfully use of social media in both urban and rural areas in the region.

Certainly, professional development of employees and educators through a workshop, seminars, in-house training and re-training, and conferences among others are seen as a panacea/measure to improve the challenges of using social media networks to disseminate information to library users. And, the regulation of social media use in Africa through policy is a prerequisite to improving the usage of social media [3]. However, the clampdown on the use of social media cannot unnoticed, particularly by the government of Tanzania. Therefore, the Tanzania Communication Regulation Authority was established to curb the usage of social media in the country. In addition, in 2016 the Cyber Crime Act was also established to cement the control of the usage of social media in Tanzania [34].
