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Media and identity in Africa / edited by Kimani Njogu and John Middleton.

Contributor(s): Middleton, John, 1921-2009 | Njogu, Kimani.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, c2009Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.Description: xvii, 333 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780253222015; 025322201X.Subject(s): Mass media -- Africa | Mass media -- Social aspects -- Africa | Mass media -- Political aspects -- AfricaDDC classification: 401.4
Contents:
Orality, the media and new popular cultures in Africa / Karin Barber -- The media in social development in contemporary Africa / Paul Tiyambe Zeleza -- Language and the media in Africa : between the old empire and the new / Alamin Mazrui -- Reflections on the media in Africa : strangers in a mirror? / Goretti Linda Nassanga -- Africa's media : democracy and belonging / Francis B. Nyamnjoh -- Representation of Africa in the Western media : challenges and opportunities / John Kiarie Wa'Njogu -- Media consumerism and cultural transformation / Eric Masinde Aseka -- African intellectuals in a hostile media environment / Macharia Munene -- Publishing in Africa / Cecilia Kimani -- Pentecostalism and modern audiovisual media / Birgit Meyer -- Rekindling efficacy : storytelling for health / Kimani Njogu -- The media in education / Charles Ngome -- Horn of Africa and Kenya diaspora websites as alternative media sources / Ann Biersteker -- Popular dance music and the media / John Collins -- Media parenting and the construction of media identities in northern Nigerian Muslim Hausa video films / Abdalla Uba Adamu -- 'To make strange things possible' : the photomontages of the Bakor Photo Studio in Lamu, Kenya / Heike Behrend -- Musical images and imaginations : Tanzania music videos / Kelly M. Askew -- Political ridicule : medialized notions of 'transparent concealment' / Bantu Mwaura -- Names, cloth and identity : a case from West Africa / Michelle Gilbert -- Museums in Africa / Simiyu Wandibba -- Literary prizes, book prizes and African writing / Walter Bgoya -- Innovating 'AlterNative' identities : Nairobi Matatu culture / Mbugua wa Mungai -- Bringing change through laughter : cartooning in Kenya / Patrick Gathara and Mary Kabura Wanjau -- Demonic 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Orality, the media and new popular cultures in Africa / Karin Barber -- The media in social development in contemporary Africa / Paul Tiyambe Zeleza -- Language and the media in Africa : between the old empire and the new / Alamin Mazrui -- Reflections on the media in Africa : strangers in a mirror? / Goretti Linda Nassanga -- Africa's media : democracy and belonging / Francis B. Nyamnjoh -- Representation of Africa in the Western media : challenges and opportunities / John Kiarie Wa'Njogu -- Media consumerism and cultural transformation / Eric Masinde Aseka -- African intellectuals in a hostile media environment / Macharia Munene -- Publishing in Africa / Cecilia Kimani -- Pentecostalism and modern audiovisual media / Birgit Meyer -- Rekindling efficacy : storytelling for health / Kimani Njogu -- The media in education / Charles Ngome -- Horn of Africa and Kenya diaspora websites as alternative media sources / Ann Biersteker -- Popular dance music and the media / John Collins -- Media parenting and the construction of media identities in northern Nigerian Muslim Hausa video films / Abdalla Uba Adamu -- 'To make strange things possible' : the photomontages of the Bakor Photo Studio in Lamu, Kenya / Heike Behrend -- Musical images and imaginations : Tanzania music videos / Kelly M. Askew -- Political ridicule : medialized notions of 'transparent concealment' / Bantu Mwaura -- Names, cloth and identity : a case from West Africa / Michelle Gilbert -- Museums in Africa / Simiyu Wandibba -- Literary prizes, book prizes and African writing / Walter Bgoya -- Innovating 'AlterNative' identities : Nairobi Matatu culture / Mbugua wa Mungai -- Bringing change through laughter : cartooning in Kenya / Patrick Gathara and Mary Kabura Wanjau -- Demonic 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.

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