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Alternative Media, Repression and the Crisis State: Towards a Political Economy of Alternative Media in Post-Mugabe Zimbabwe
Journal of Asian and African Studies, volume 59, issue 1 (2024), pp. 172-186
"Zimbabwe has a tainted media history under Mugabe replete with examples of state orchestrated repression, draconian legislation, harassment of journalists and violation of their work premises. The post-November 2017 coup period is a critical reference point to understand the political economy of al
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Indigenous Language for Development Communication in the Global South
Deep Insights
Lanham et al.: Lexington Books (2023), 310 pp.
"This edited collection brings together voices from the margins in underrepresented regions of the Global South, within the context of scholarship focusing on indigenous languages and development communication. Contributors bring together research from often-overlooked parts of the world to engage i
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Indigenous Language for Social Change Communication in the Global South
Deep Insights
Lanham et al.: Lexington Books (2023), vii, 284 pp.
"Indigenous Language for Social Change Communication in the Global South brings together voices from the margins to engage in dialogue about common social change issues in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. This book argues that resistance and social movements, expressed in music and songs and exchang
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African Language Media: Development, Economics and Management
Deep Insights
London: Routledge (2021), 309 pp.
"This edited volume considers why the African language press is unstable and what can be done to develop quality African language journalism into a sustainable business. Providing an overview of the African language journalism landscape, this book examines the challenges of operating sustainable Afr
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"Exploring Journalism Practice and Perception in Developing Countries is a crucial reference source for the latest scholarly material on the impacts of development journalism on contemporary nations and the media’s responsibility to inform citizens of government and non-government activities. High
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Bridging Theory and Practice in Entertainment Education: An Assessment of the Conceptualization and Design of Tsha Tsha in South Africa
Sage Open, issue January-March (2018), 12 pp.
"The entertainment–education (E-E) strategy in development communication has been widely described as the panacea to development challenges in Africa. However, despite its growing application on the continent, E-E is still argued to be inhibited from contributing meaningfully toward development ef
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African Language Digital Media and Communication
London; New York: Routledge (2018), xi, 236 pp.
"This book analyses the online presence of African language media. The chapters in the book focus on the speed, structure, content, navigation and interactivity, operations and performance, and audience of the online media. They also pay particular attention to how social media such as Facebook, Twi
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Accounting for Youth Audiences’ Resistances to HIV and AIDS Messages in the Television Drama Tsha Tsha in South Africa
SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS, volume 15, issue 1 (2018), pp. 20-30
"Using cultural studies as its conceptual framework and reception analysis as its methodology, this study investigated and accounted for the oppositional readings that subaltern black South African youths negotiate from Tsha Tsha, an E-E television drama on HIV and AIDS in South Africa. Results from
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Indigenous Language Media, Language Politics and Democracy in Africa
Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xiii, 246 pp.
"This book deals with the often-neglected link between indigenous languages, media and democracy in Africa. It recognizes that the media plays an amplifying role that is vital to modern-day expression, public participation and democracy but that without the agency to harness media potential, many Af
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Communication and Media Studies in South Africa: Observations, Impressions and Remarks
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 5, issue 1 (2013), pp. 87-100
"This article offers some self-reflexive comments on Communication and media studies in South Africa. The discipline in South Africa, presents a very exciting and intriguing posture for the simple fact that it allows for diversity– observable in the variety of labels, emphases and curricula. Equal
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Indigenous Language Media in Africa
Lagos: Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilization (CBAAC) (2006), xii, 398 pp.
"A collection of 22 papers on the indigenous language press (and other media) in Cameroon, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Uganda, and Zimbabwe, primarily devoted to the activities of African language newspapers and periodicals. Some papers examine the significant and pioneering role religious publications
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