This study examines the influence of social media on contemporary African playwriting, focusing on character development, dramatic dialogue and narrative structure. It responds to the limited scholarly attention given to the dramaturgical implications of social media, as existing studies have largely emphasised its roles in theatre promotion, performance dissemination and audience engagement. The study adopts a qualitative textual-analysis approach, using selected contemporary African dramatic texts as primary materials and relevant scholarly publications as secondary sources. Through close textual analysis, the study investigates how digital communication The study closely analyses how digital communication integrates into characterisation, dialogue, and narrative organisation into characterisation, dialogue and narrative organisation. The findings reveal that social media has become an emerging dramaturgical resource in contemporary African theatre. It enables characters to construct multiple identities across physical and virtual spaces, intensifies interpersonal relationships and generates new forms of conflict through digital interactions, public exposure and archived communication. The research further demonstrates that social media enhances dramatic dialogue via text messages, posts, comments, emojis, hashtags, abbreviations, slang, and code-switching, while promoting fragmented, diverse, and multimodal communication forms. In addition, the networked and discontinuous nature of digital communication promotes nonlinear narrative structures, multiple perspectives, digital interruptions and movement between physical and virtual spaces. The study concludes that social media does not replace traditional African theatrical forms but extends and transforms their dramaturgical possibilities. It recommends greater attention to digital dramaturgy in African theatre scholarship, playwriting practice and theatre training.