Routledge handbook of African media and communication studies
Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY:
Routledge
(2021), xiv, 286 pp., index
ISBN 978-1-351-27320-6 (ebook); 978-1-138-57477-9 (print)
"The book goes beyond critiques of the marginality of African approaches in media and communication studies to offer scholars the theoretical and empirical toolkit needed to start building critical corpora of African scholarship and theory that places the everyday worlds, needs and uses of Africans first. Decoloniality demands new epistemological interventions in African media, culture and communication, and this book is an important interlocutor in this space. In a globally interconnected world, changing patterns of authority and power pose new challenges to the ways in which media institutions are constituted and managed, as well as how communication and media policy is negotiated and the manner in which citizens engage with increasing media opportunities. The handbook focuses on the interrelationships of the local and the global and the concomitant consequences for media practice, education and citizen engagement in today’s Africa." (Publisher)
Contents
1 Decoloniality and the push for African media and communication studies: an introduction / Winston Mano and Viola V. Milton, 1
2 Afrokology of media and communication studies: theorising from the margins / Winston Mano and Viola C. Milton, 19
3 Frantz Fanon, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and African media and communication studies / Pier Paolo Frassinelli, 43
4 Rethinking African Strategic Communication: towards a new violence / Colin Chasi, 54
5 Afrokology and organisational culture: why employees are not behaving as predicted / Elnerine Greeff, 68
6 To be or not to be: decolonising African media/communications / Kehbuma Langmia, 81
7 Communicating the idea of South Africa in the age of decoloniality / Blessed Ngwenya, 91
8 Decolonising communication and media studies: an exploratory survey on global curricula transformation debates / Ylva Rodny-Gumede and Colin Chasi, 107
9 Africa on demand: the production and distribution of African narratives through podcasting / Rachel Lara van der Merwe, 126
10 The African novel and its global communicative potentail: Africa's soft power / Mary-Jean Nleya, 141
11 Citizen Journalism and conflict transformation: exploring netizens' digitized shaping of political crises in Kenya / Toyin Ajao, 155
12 Ghetto 'wall-standing': counterhegemonic graffiti in Zimbabwe / Hugh Mangeya, 166
13 "Arab Spring" or Arab winter: social media and 21 century slave trade in Libya / Kehbuma Langmia, Ashley Lewis & Shamilla Amulega, 181
14 On community radio and African interest broadcasting: the case of Vukani Community Radio (VCR) [South Africa] / Siyasanga M. Tyali, 192
15 Not just a benevolent bystander: the corrosive role of private sector media on the sustainability of South Africam Broadcasting Corporation / Kate Skinner, 205
16 Health communication in Africa / Elizabeth Lubinga and Karabo Sitto, 217
17 The politics of identity, trauma, memory, and decolonisation in Neill Blomkamp's 'Chappie' (2015) / Beschara Karam, 234
18 Nollywood as decoloniality / Ikechukwu Obiaya, 245
19 Afrokology as a transdisciplinary approach to media and communication studies / Viola C. Milton and Winston Mano, 256
2 Afrokology of media and communication studies: theorising from the margins / Winston Mano and Viola C. Milton, 19
3 Frantz Fanon, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and African media and communication studies / Pier Paolo Frassinelli, 43
4 Rethinking African Strategic Communication: towards a new violence / Colin Chasi, 54
5 Afrokology and organisational culture: why employees are not behaving as predicted / Elnerine Greeff, 68
6 To be or not to be: decolonising African media/communications / Kehbuma Langmia, 81
7 Communicating the idea of South Africa in the age of decoloniality / Blessed Ngwenya, 91
8 Decolonising communication and media studies: an exploratory survey on global curricula transformation debates / Ylva Rodny-Gumede and Colin Chasi, 107
9 Africa on demand: the production and distribution of African narratives through podcasting / Rachel Lara van der Merwe, 126
10 The African novel and its global communicative potentail: Africa's soft power / Mary-Jean Nleya, 141
11 Citizen Journalism and conflict transformation: exploring netizens' digitized shaping of political crises in Kenya / Toyin Ajao, 155
12 Ghetto 'wall-standing': counterhegemonic graffiti in Zimbabwe / Hugh Mangeya, 166
13 "Arab Spring" or Arab winter: social media and 21 century slave trade in Libya / Kehbuma Langmia, Ashley Lewis & Shamilla Amulega, 181
14 On community radio and African interest broadcasting: the case of Vukani Community Radio (VCR) [South Africa] / Siyasanga M. Tyali, 192
15 Not just a benevolent bystander: the corrosive role of private sector media on the sustainability of South Africam Broadcasting Corporation / Kate Skinner, 205
16 Health communication in Africa / Elizabeth Lubinga and Karabo Sitto, 217
17 The politics of identity, trauma, memory, and decolonisation in Neill Blomkamp's 'Chappie' (2015) / Beschara Karam, 234
18 Nollywood as decoloniality / Ikechukwu Obiaya, 245
19 Afrokology as a transdisciplinary approach to media and communication studies / Viola C. Milton and Winston Mano, 256
