Decolonising political communication in Africa : reframing ontologies / edited by Beschara Karam and Bruce Mutsvairo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Karam, Beschara Sharlene., Editor.

Mutsvairo, Bruce, 1979- editor.

Series:

Routledge Contemporary Africa

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication in politics--Africa.

Communication in politics.

Decolonization--Africa.

Decolonization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (226 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Decolonizing political communication in Africa

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2021.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book uses decolonisation as a lens to interrogate political communication styles, performance, and practice in Africa and the diaspora. The book interrogates the theory and practice of political communication, using decolonial research methods to begin a process of self-reflexivity and the creation of a new approach to knowledge production about African political communication. In doing so, it explores political communication approaches that might until recently have been considered subversive or dissident: forms of political communication that served to challenge imposed western norms and to empower African citizens and their histories. Centring African scholarship, the book draws on case studies from across the continent, including Zimbabwe, South Africa, Nigeria and Ghana. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of politics, media and communication in Africa.

Contents:

Foreword: Political Communication for Upending Colonialism and its Legacies / Colin Chasi

Reframing African Ontologies in the era of Decolonisation / Beschara Karam and Bruce Mutsvairo

Decolonising Conflict Reporting: Media and Election Violence in Zimbabwe / Tendai Chari

Conspicuous and Performative Blackness as Decolonial Political Branding Against the Myth of the Post-Colonial Society: A Case of the EFF / Rofhiwa Felicia Mukhudwana

Zanele Muholi's Work as Political Communication and Decolonisation / Beschara Karam

Documentary Film as Political Communication in Post-Apartheid South Africa / Pier-Paolo Frassinelli

Remembering and Memorising: The Efficacy of Photography in Political Communication in Postcolonial Africa / George Nyabuga

"Killing with Kindness": Political Icons, Socio-Cultural Victims: Visual Coloniality of the Siddis of Karnataka, India / Sayan Dey

On the Question of Decolonisation, Gender and Political Communication / Sally Osei-Appiah

Freedom in the Jazz Imaginary: Twentieth Century Aesthetic Revolt / Salim Washington

Empowering Communities through Liberalisation of Airwaves in Ghana / Africanus L. Diedong

In the Realm of Uncertainty: Kenya's Ghetto Radio as Politicised Space / Wilson Ugangu

Social Media as a Sphere of Political Disruption in Zimbabwe's Cyber Sphere: Reexamining #Thisflag Digital Campaign / Trust Matsilele and Bruce Mutsvairo

Transformation, Fragmentation and Decolonisation: The Contested Role of the Media in Postcolonial South Africa / Ylva Rodny-Gumede

The Voice of the Voiceless? Decoloniality and Online Radical Discourses in South Africa / Lorenzo Dalvit.

Notes:

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781003111962

1003111963

9780367630317

0367630311

9781000411959

1000411958

OCLC:

1235905348

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003111962