Media and Identity in Africa
Media and Identity in Africa
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Abstract
Studies of the media in Africa, incorporating both African and international perspectives, are few. The thirty chapters collected here were presented as papers 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 chapters 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 chapters illustrate how there is increasing control by local people of traditional and modern forms of media. Globalisation 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.
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Front Matter
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Part I The Media, Community and Identity
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Orality, the Media and New Popular Cultures in Africa
Karin Barber
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The Media in Social Development in Contemporary Africa
Paul Tiyambe Zeleza
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Language and the Media in Africa: Between the Old Empire and the New
Alamin Mazrui
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Reflections on the Media in Africa: Strangers in a Mirror?
Goretti Linda Nassanga
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Africa’s Media: Democracy and Belonging
Francis B. Nyamnjoh
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Representation of Africa in the Western Media: Challenges and Opportunities
John Kiarie Wa’Njogu
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Media Consumerism and Cultural Transformation
Eric Masinde Aseka
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African Intellectuals in a Hostile Media Environment
Macharia Munene
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Orality, the Media and New Popular Cultures in Africa
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Part II The Media and Identity: The Global Media
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Publishing in Africa
Cecilia Kimani
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Pentecostalism and Modern Audiovisual Media
Birgit Meyer
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Rekindling Efficacy: Storytelling for Health
Kimani Njogu
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12
The Media in Education
Charles Ngome
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13
Horn of Africa and Kenya Diaspora Websites as Alternative Media Sources
Ann Biersteker
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14
Popular Dance Music and the Media
John Collins
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Media Parenting and the Construction of Media Identities in Northern Nigerian Muslim Hausa Video Films
Abdalla Uba Adamu
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Publishing in Africa
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Part III The Media and Identity: The Local Media
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‘To Make Strange Things Possible’: The Photomontages of the Bakor Photo Studio in Lamu, Kenya
Heike Behrend
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Musical Images and Imaginations: Tanzanian Music Videos
Kelly M. Askew
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Political Ridicule: Mediatized Notions of ‘Transparent Concealment’1
Bantu Mwaura
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Names, Cloth and Identity: A Case From West Africa
Michelle Gilbert
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Museums in Africa
Simiyu Wandibba
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Literary Prizes, Book Prizes and African Writing
Walter Bgoya
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Innovating ‘Alternative’ Identities: Nairobi Matatu Culture
Mbugua wa Mungai
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Bringing Change Through Laughter: Cartooning in Kenya
Patrick Gathara andMary Kabura Wanjau
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Demonic Tradition:Representations of Oathing in Newspaper Coverage of the 1997 Crisis in Coastal Kenya1
Diane M. Ciekawy
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Epilogue: In the Name of Similitude
V. Y. Mudimbe
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‘To Make Strange Things Possible’: The Photomontages of the Bakor Photo Studio in Lamu, Kenya
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