Full Description
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.
Contents
Prologue: The Nairobi Seminar, K.Njogu and J. Middleton; Part I: The media, community, and identity; 1. Orality, the Media and New Popular Culture in Africa, Karin Barber; 2. The Media in Social Development in Contemporary Africa, Paul Tiyambe Zeleza; 3. Language and the Media in Africa: Between the Old Rmpire and the New, Alamin Mazrui; 4. Media in Africa: Strangers in a Mirror? Goretti Linda Nassanga; 5. Africa's Media: Democracy and Belonging, Francis Nyamnjoh; 6. Representation of Africa in the Western Media: Challenges and Opportunities, John Kiarie wa Njogu; 7. Media Consumerism and Identity Transformation in Local Communities, Eric Masinde Aseka; 8. African Intellectuals in a Hostile Media Environment, Macharia Munene; Part II: The media and identity: the global media; 9. Book and Newspaper Publishing, Cecilia Kimani; 10. Pentecostalism and the Modern Audio-Visual Media, Birgit Meyer; 11. Rekindling Efficacy: Story-Telling for Health, Kimani Njogu; 12. The Media in Education, Charles Ngome; 13. Horn of Africa and Kenya Diaspora Websites as Alternative Media Sources, Ann Biersteker; 14. Popular Dance Music and the Media, John Collins; 15. Media Parenting and the Construction of Media Identities in Northern Nigerian Muslim Hausa Films, Abdalla Uba Adamu; Part III: The media and identity: the local media; 16. To Make Strange Things Possible: The Photo Montages of the Bakor Photostudio in Lamu, Heike Behrend; 17. Musical Iimages and Imaginations: Tanzania Music Videos, Kelly Askew; 18. Political Ridicule: Medialized Notions of Transparent Concealment in Wahome Mutahi's Plays, Bantu Mwaura; 19. Names, Cloth, and Identity: A Case from West Africa, Michelle Gilbert; 20. Museums in Africa, Simiyu Wandibba; 21. Literary Prizes and Writing in Africa, Walter Bgoya; 22. Innovating 'AlterNative' Identity: Nairobi Matatu Culture, Mbugua wa Mungai; 23. Bringing Change through Laughter: Cartooning in Kenya, Patrick Gathara and Mary Kabura Wanjau; Epilogue: In the Name of Similitude, V.Y.Mudimbe; List of Contributors.
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