Media and Identity in Africa

Kimani Njogu; John Middleton

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2009

Media and Identity in Africa

Kimani Njogu and John Middleton

In the series International African Seminars

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748635214

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About this book

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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Prologue Kimani Njogu and John Middleton Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Part I: The Media, Community and Identity
1 Orality, the Media and New Popular Cultures in Africa Karin Barber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2 The Media in Social Development in Contemporary Africa Paul Tiyambe Zeleza Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
3 Language and the Media in Africa: Between the Old Empire and the New Alamin Mazrui Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	36
4 Reflections on the Media in Africa: Strangers in a Mirror? Goretti Linda Nassanga Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
5 Africa’s Media: Democracy and Belonging Francis B. Nyamnjoh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	62
6 Representation of Africa in the Western Media: Challenges and Opportunities John Kiarie Wa’Njogu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	76
7 Media Consumerism and Cultural Transformation Eric Masinde Aseka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	84
8 African Intellectuals in a Hostile Media Environment Macharia Munene Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	94
Part II: The Media and Identity: The Global Media
9 Publishing in Africa Cecilia Kimani Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
10 Pentecostalism and the Modern Audiovisual Media Birgit Meyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	114
11 Rekindling Efficacy: Storytelling for Health Kimani Njogu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	124
12 The Media in Education Charles Ngome Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
13 Horn of Africa and Kenya Diaspora Websites as Alternative Media Sources Ann Biersteker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
14 Popular Dance Music and the Media John Collins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	162
15 Media Parenting and the Construction of Media Identities in Northern Nigerian Muslim Hausa Video Films Abdalla Uba Adamu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
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 Heike Behrend Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
17 Musical Images and Imaginations: Tanzania Music Videos Kelly M. Askew Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	208
18 Political Ridicule: Medialized Notions of ‘Transparent Concealment’ Bantu Mwaura Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	218
19 Names, Cloth and Identity: A Case from West Africa Michelle Gilbert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	226
20 Museums in Africa Simiyu Wandibba Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
21 Literary Prizes, Book Prizes and African Writing Walter Bgoya Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	258
22 Innovating ‘AlterNative’ Identities: Nairobi Matatu Culture Mbugua wa Mungai Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
23 Bringing Change through Laughter: Cartooning in Kenya Patrick Gathara and Mary Kabura Wanjau Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
24 Demonic Tradition: Representations of Oathing in Newspaper Coverage of the 1997 Crisis in Coastal Kenya Diane M. Ciekawy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287
Epilogue: In the Name of Similitude V. Y. Mudimbe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	308
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	325

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 352
Illustrations
- Other: 32 B/W illustrations
Keywords: African Studies

eBook

Published: April 9, 2009
ISBN: 9780748635214