Media and Identity in Africa / / Kimani Njogu, John Middleton.
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...
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Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2009 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Series: | International African Seminars : IAS
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 p.) :; 32 B/W illustrations |
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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