Racism, Ethnicity and the Media in Africa: Mediating Conflict in the Twenty-first Century

by Winston Mano (Editor)

Overview

In today's Africa racism and ethnicity have been implicated in serious conflicts - from Egypt to Mali to South Africa - that have cost lives and undermined efforts to achieve national cohesion and meaningful development. Racism, Ethnicity and the Media in Africa sets about rethinking the role of media and communication in perpetuating, reinforcing and reining in racism, absolute ethnicity and other discriminations across Africa. It goes beyond the customary discussion of media racism and ethnic stereotyping to critically address broader issues of identity, belonging and exclusion. Topics covered include racism in South African newspapers, pluralist media debates in Kenya, media discourses on same-sex relations in Uganda and ethnicised news coverage in Nigerian newspapers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780857735652
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	05/05/2015
Series:	International Library of African Studies
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	368
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Winston Mano is Director of the Africa Media Centre, University of Westminster. He is also Principal Editor of the 'Journal of African Media Studies'. He is the author of African National Radio and Everyday Life: The Impact of Radio in the Digital Age (forthcoming from I.B. Tauris) and is editor of The Media and Zimbabwe (2005).

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1: Introduction - On Racism, Ethnicity and the Media in Africa by Winston Mano
 
CHAPTER 2: Racism, Ethnicity and the Media in Africa: Reflections Inspired by
Studies of Xenophobia in Cameroon and South Africa by Francis B.
Nyamnjoh, University of Cape Town, South Africa
 
CHAPTER 3: Racism in South African Newspapers by Herman Wasserman, Rhodes University South Africa.
 
CHAPTER 4 The road to renaming - what's in a name? The changing of
Durban's street names by Kristin Skare Orgeret, University College
of Oslo, Norway
 
CHAPTER 5: Indigenous language Newspaper Readers in Zimbabwe by
Hayes Mabweazara, Edinburgh University
 
CHAPTER 6: Reporting Ethnic Minority Issues in Africa: A Study of Nigerian Newspapers
By Nkereuwem Udoakah University of Uyo, Nigeria
 
CHAPTER 7: Regionalism and ethnicity in the Nigerian press: An analysis of the
coverage of Boko Haram and Niger Delta conflicts in the Guardian
and Daily Trust, Muhammad Jameel Yusha'u, Northumbria University,
Newcastle upon Tyne
 
CHAPTER 8: Programming for National Unity:  The Paradox of
Television in Nigeria by Oluyinka Esan, University of Winchester
 
CHAPTER 9: Influencing the Information Domain: the UN's
Information Intervention in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Jacob
Udo-Udo Jacob, Leeds University, UK
 
CHAPTER 10: 'Thus saith the
Prophet': The Media, Ethnic Myths and Electoral Politics in Kenya,
Duncan Omanga, Bayreuth International Graduate School of African
Studies, University of Bayreuth-Germany
 
CHAPTER 11: Pluralist Media in Kenya: A critical view by Elisabet
Helander, SOAS, University of London

CHAPTER 12: State-sanctioned discrimination and media discourses on
homosexuality in Namibia by Cecilia Strand, Uppsala University,
SwedenCHAPTER 13: Class-Struggles, Racism and Greedy in Sakawa
Films in Ghana, Felix_Riedel

CHAPTER 14: Diaspora, identities and the challenge of complexity in
Africa Film Daniela Ricci Université Jean Moulin-  Lyon3 (France)
 
CHAPTER 15: Postcolonial nostalgia: Zimbabwe in the British press,
Wendy Willems, Witswatersrand University, South Africa
 
CHAPTER 16: The Representation of Africans in Norwegian Media,
Martin Nkosi Ndlela, Hedmark University, Norway
 
Bibliography
Index