The African Union-European Union Summit (AU-EU Summit) is the premier platform for high-level talks between European and African policymakers. These summits, in the words of the European Union (EU), “take stock of the progress made in the implementation of commitments and provide political guidance for further work.” They complement ongoing exchanges between the EU and the African Union (AU) and determine joint priorities for political, economic and social cooperation between the two continents. The 2017 AU-EU Summit, the fifth since 2000, ran under the official theme “Investing in youth for a sustainable future.” This paper presents a Twitter analysis of the AU-EU Summit, which took place on November 29 and 30, 2017, in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. An analysis of Twitter data offers the opportunity to determine the views of individuals and groups around certain issues. Moreover, it can offer a window into public debates held over social media, how these debates change over time, which communities share what information, and to what extent filter bubbles and insular groups within and across larger communities exist. This paper proceeds as follows: The next section introduces the methodology used for the Twitter analysis. Section three discusses the results of the analysis of the central and more peripheral Twitter communities as well as the main themes discussed around the AU-EU Summit. A short conclusion summarizes the main findings.
