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- ISBN 9780748635221
- Weight: 679g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 09 Apr 2009
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Kimani Njogu is Director of Twaweza Communications and former associate professor of African languages at Kenyatta University in Kenya. Kimani Njogu was formerly Associate Professor of KiSwahili and African Languages, Kenyatta University, Nairobi. He has done linguistic research among Swahili of Kenya, and is a writer and producer of social change soap operas in several African, Caribbean and Asian countries. His main publications include The Teaching of Literature: Theory and Method, 1999 (in KiSwahili and awarded the Noma Award for Publishing); Reading Poetry as Dialogue: An East African Poetic Tradition, 2004; and Zilazala (A Play), 2006. John Middleton was Professor of Anthropology and Religious Studies at Yale University. Professor Middleton's research interests focussed on social anthropological research in Uganda, Nigeria, Ghana, Zanzibar and Kenya. He held positions at University College; the School of Oriental and Asian Studies (SOAS), University of London; and at Cape Town, Northwestern, New York, Frankfurt and Yale Universities. Professor Middleton was formerly Editor of Africa: The Journal of the International African Institute (1972-79), and edited the Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara (New York, 1997) and the New Encyclopedia of Africa (Michigan, 2007).
