Media and identity in Africa:
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press for the International African Institute ©2009
Series:International African seminars new ser., no. 7
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Item Description:Includes index
Includes bibliographical references and index
Cover; Copyright; CONTENTS; CONTRIBUTORS; PROLOGUE; PART I THE MEDIA, COMMUNITY AND IDENTITY; 1 Karin Barber ORALITY, THE MEDIA AND NEW POPULAR CULTURES IN AFRICA; 2 Paul Tiyambe Zeleza THE MEDIA IN SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT IN CONTEMPORARY AFRICA; 3 Alamin Mazrui LANGUAGE AND THE MEDIA IN AFRICA: BETWEEN THE OLD EMPIRE AND THE NEW; 4 Goretti Linda Nassanga REFLECTIONS ON THE MEDIA IN AFRICA: STRANGERS IN A MIRROR?; 5 Francis B. Nyamnjoh AFRICA'S MEDIA: DEMOCRACY AND BELON; 6 John Kiarie Wa'Njogu REPRESENTATION OF AFRICAIN THE WESTERN MEDIA: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES.
Studies of the media in Africa, incorporating both African and international perspectives, are few. The thirty papers collected here were presented at a seminar organised and hosted by the Kenya-based Twaweza Communications and the International African Institute in Nairobi in 2004. They demonstrate how media outlets are used to perpetuate, question or modify the unequal power relations between the North and the South. Focusing on east Africa, the papers include discussions of the construction of old and new social entities, as defined by class, gender, ethnicity, political and economic differ
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 333 pages)
ISBN:0748635211
074863522X
9780748635214
9780748635221

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