Media and Identity in Africa / / Kimani Njogu, John Middleton.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Njogu, Kimani,; Middleton, John,
• MitwirkendeR: Adamu, Abdalla Uba,; Aseka, Eric Masinde,; Askew, Kelly M.,; Barber, Karin,; Behrend, Heike,; Bgoya, Walter,; Biersteker, Ann,; Ciekawy, Diane M.,; Collins, John,; Gathara, Patrick,; Gilbert, Michelle,; Kimani, Cecilia,; Mazrui, Alamin,; Meyer, Birgit,; Middleton, John,; Mudimbe, V. Y.,; Munene, Macharia,; Mungai, Mbugua wa,; Mwaura, Bantu,; Nassanga, Goretti Linda,; Ngome, Charles,; Njogu, Kimani,; Nyamnjoh, Francis B.,; Wandibba, Simiyu,; Wanjau, Mary Kabura,; Wa’Njogu, John Kiarie,; Zeleza, Paul Tiyambe,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: International African Seminars : IAS
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.) :; 32 B/W illustrations

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 differences, wealth, poverty, cultural behaviour, language and religion. The authors illustrate how there is increasing control by local people of traditional and modern forms of media. Globalization is being countered by local responses, within the context of social and cultural identities. Essentially, the book describes the tensions between the global and the local, tensions not often discussed in media studies, thus pioneering new debates.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Contributors -- Prologue -- Part I: The Media, Community and Identity -- 1 Orality, the Media and New Popular Cultures in Africa -- 2 The Media in Social Development in Contemporary Africa -- 3 Language and the Media in Africa: Between the Old Empire and the New -- 4 Reflections on the Media in Africa: Strangers in a Mirror? -- 5 Africa’s Media: Democracy and Belonging -- 6 Representation of Africa in the Western Media: Challenges and Opportunities -- 7 Media Consumerism and Cultural Transformation -- 8 African Intellectuals in a Hostile Media Environment -- Part II: The Media and Identity: The Global Media -- 9 Publishing in Africa -- 10 Pentecostalism and the Modern Audiovisual Media -- 11 Rekindling Efficacy: Storytelling for Health -- 12 The Media in Education -- 13 Horn of Africa and Kenya Diaspora Websites as Alternative Media Sources -- 14 Popular Dance Music and the Media -- 15 Media Parenting and the Construction of Media Identities in Northern Nigerian Muslim Hausa Video Films -- Part III: The Media and Identity: The Local Media -- 16 ‘To Make Strange Things Possible’: The Photomontages of the Bakor Photo Studio in Lamu, Kenya -- 17 Musical Images and Imaginations: Tanzania Music Videos -- 18 Political Ridicule: Medialized Notions of ‘Transparent Concealment’ -- 19 Names, Cloth and Identity: A Case from West Africa -- 20 Museums in Africa -- 21 Literary Prizes, Book Prizes and African Writing -- 22 Innovating ‘AlterNative’ Identities: Nairobi Matatu Culture -- 23 Bringing Change through Laughter: Cartooning in Kenya -- 24 Demonic Tradition: Representations of Oathing in Newspaper Coverage of the 1997 Crisis in Coastal Kenya -- Epilogue: In the Name of Similitude -- Index