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Interrogating Dominant Ideology in Media Representations of Witchcraft-Related Gendered Violence: The Case of Mariama Akua Denteh
International Journal of Communication, volume 17 (2023), pp. 4778-4795
"Media studies scholarship in Ghana has disproportionately focused on political communication and press freedom, with few studies taking a feminist approach to understanding the representation of marginalized people in media narratives. Existing scholarship has examined the representation of Ghanaia
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Health Communication in the Changing Media Landscape: Perspectives from Developing Countries
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Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xxv, 238 pp.
"This book advances new understandings of how technologies have been harnessed to improve the health of populations; whether the technologies really empower those who use information by providing them with a choice of information; how they shape health policy discourses; how the health information r
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No Peace in the House: Witchcraft Accusations as an “Old Woman’s Problem” in Ghana
Anthropology & Aging Quarterly, volume 34, issue 2 (2013), pp. 199-212
"In Ghana, older women may be marginalized, abused, and even killed as witches. Media accounts imply this is common practice, mainly through stories of “witches camps” to which the accused may flee. Anthropological literature on aging and on witchcraft, however, suggests that this focus exaggera
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Postnationalist African Cinemas
Manchester: Manchester University Press (2011), xii, 269 pp.
"Postnationalist African cinemas convincingly interrogates the ways in which African narratives locate postcolonial identities and forms beyond essentially nationalist frameworks. It investigates how the emergence of new genres, discourses and representations, all unrelated to an overtly nationalist
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Children Accused of Witchcraft: An Anthropological Study of Contemporary Practices in Africa
Dakar: UNICEF (2010), 55 pp.
"This study addresses the issue of children who are victims of violence and mistreatment due to local beliefs, representations and practices, in particular, relating to witchcraft. While the harmful consequences of these beliefs have been publicised internationally, their origins often remain unclea
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‘We Need to Open Up the Country’: Development and the Christian Key Scenario in the Social Space of Kinshasa’s Teleserials
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 1, issue 1 (2009), pp. 101-116
"This article discusses discourses on development in the social space of Kinshasa’s post-Mobutu teleserials. The producers (dramatic artists and born-again Christian leaders; some are both) contend that their work will transform society, counter the social and political crisis and improve the nati
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Witchcraft and the Limits of Mass Mediation in Malawi
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, volume 13, issue 2 (2007), pp. 295-311
"This article explores what the study of witchcraft in an African setting can contribute to current efforts to theorize mass mediation and the imagination it fosters. Recent ethnographies of witchcraft discourses in Africa have continued to associate them with the formation of small-scale groups, bu
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Yaaba (Idrissa Ouedraogo)
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2005), 24 pp.
Africa screams: Das Böse in Kino, Kunst und Kult
Wuppertal: Peter Hammer Verlag (2004), 288 pp.
