Full Description
What is the role of the media in Africa? How do they work? How do they interact with global media? How do they reflect and express local culture? Incorporating both African and international perspectives, Media and Identity in Africa demonstrates how media outlets are used to perpetuate, question, or modify the unequal power relations between Africa and the rest of the world. Discussions about the construction of old and new social entities which are defined by class, gender, ethnicity, political and economic differences, wealth, poverty, cultural behavior, language, and religion dominate these new assessments of communications media in Africa. This volume addresses the tensions between the global and the local that have inspired creative control and use of traditional and modern forms of media.
Contents
Contributors
Prologue Kimani Njogu and John Middleton
Part I: The Media, Community and Identity
1Orality, the Media and New Popular Cultures in Africa Karin Barber
2 The Media in Social Developments in Contemporary Africa Paul Tiyambe Zeleza
3Language and the Media in Africa: Between the Old Empire and the New
Alamin Mazrui
4Reflections on the Media in Africa: Strangers in the Mirror? Goretti Linda Nassanga
5Africa's Media: Democracy and Belonging Francis B. Nyamnjoh
6Representation of Africa in the Western Media: Challenges and Opportunities
John Kiarie Wa'Njogu
7Media Consumerism and Cultural Transformation Eric Masinde Aseka
8African Intellectuals in a Hostile Media Environment Macharia Munene
Part II: The Media and Identity: The Global Media
9Publishing in Africa Cecilia Kimani
10Pentecostalism and Modern Audiovisual Media Birgit Meyer
11Rekindling Efficacy: Storytelling for Health Kimani Njogu
12The Media in Education Charles Ngome
13Horn of Africa and Kenya Diaspora Websites as Alternative Media Sources
Ann Biersteker
14Popular Dance Music and the Media John Collins
15Media Parenting and the Construction of Media Identities in Northern Nigerian Muslim Hausa Video Films Abdalla Uba Adamu
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
17Musical Images and Imaginations: Tanzania Music Videos Kelly M. Askew
18Political Ridicule: Medialized Notions of 'Transparent Concealment' Bantu Mwaura
19Names, Cloth and Identity: A Case from West Africa Michelle Gilbert
20Museums in Africa Simiyu Wandibba
21Literary Prizes, Book Prizes and African Writing Walter Bgoya
22Innovating 'AlterNative' Identities: Nairobi Matatu Culture Mbugua wa Mungai
23Bringing Change through Laughter: Cartooning in Kenya
Patrick Gathara and Mary Kabura Wanjau
24Demonic Tradition: Representations of Oathing in Newspaper Coverage of the 1997 Crisis in Coastal Kenya Diane M. Ciekawy
Epilogue: In the Name of Similitude V.Y. Mudimbe
Index
