This volume addresses the tensions between the global and the local that have inspired creative control and use of traditional and modern forms of media.
This volume addresses the tensions between the global and the local that have inspired creative control and use of traditional and modern forms of media.
Kimani Njogu is Director of Twaweza Communications and former Associate Professor of African Languages at Kenyatta University, Kenya. John Middleton (1921-2009) was Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Religious Studies at Yale University.
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Contributors Prologue Kimani Njogu and John Middleton Part I: The Media, Community and Identity 1Orality, the Media and New Popular Cultures in Africa Karin Barber 2 The Media in Social Developments in Contemporary Africa Paul Tiyambe Zeleza 3Language and the Media in Africa: Between the Old Empire and the New Alamin Mazrui 4Reflections on the Media in Africa: Strangers in the Mirror? Goretti Linda Nassanga 5Africa's Media: Democracy and Belonging Francis B. Nyamnjoh 6Representation of Africa in the Western Media: Challenges and Opportunities John Kiarie Wa'Njogu 7Media Consumerism and Cultural Transformation Eric Masinde Aseka 8African Intellectuals in a Hostile Media Environment Macharia Munene Part II: The Media and Identity: The Global Media 9Publishing in Africa Cecilia Kimani 10Pentecostalism and Modern Audiovisual Media Birgit Meyer 11Rekindling Efficacy: Storytelling for Health Kimani Njogu 12The Media in Education Charles Ngome 13Horn of Africa and Kenya Diaspora Websites as Alternative Media Sources Ann Biersteker 14Popular Dance Music and the Media John Collins 15Media Parenting and the Construction of Media Identities in Northern Nigerian Muslim Hausa Video Films Abdalla Uba Adamu Part III: The Media and Identity: The Local Media 16'To Make Strange Things Possible' The Photomontages of the Bakor Photo Studio in Lamu, Kenya Heike Behrend 17Musical Images and Imaginations: Tanzania Music Videos Kelly M. Askew 18Political Ridicule: Medialized Notions of 'Transparent Concealment' Bantu Mwaura 19Names, Cloth and Identity: A Case from West Africa Michelle Gilbert 20Museums in Africa Simiyu Wandibba 21Literary Prizes, Book Prizes and African Writing Walter Bgoya 22Innovating 'AlterNative' Identities: Nairobi Matatu Culture Mbugua wa Mungai 23Bringing Change through Laughter: Cartooning in Kenya Patrick Gathara and Mary Kabura Wanjau 24Demonic 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 Index
Contributors Prologue Kimani Njogu and John Middleton Part I: The Media, Community and Identity 1Orality, the Media and New Popular Cultures in Africa Karin Barber 2 The Media in Social Developments in Contemporary Africa Paul Tiyambe Zeleza 3Language and the Media in Africa: Between the Old Empire and the New Alamin Mazrui 4Reflections on the Media in Africa: Strangers in the Mirror? Goretti Linda Nassanga 5Africa's Media: Democracy and Belonging Francis B. Nyamnjoh 6Representation of Africa in the Western Media: Challenges and Opportunities John Kiarie Wa'Njogu 7Media Consumerism and Cultural Transformation Eric Masinde Aseka 8African Intellectuals in a Hostile Media Environment Macharia Munene Part II: The Media and Identity: The Global Media 9Publishing in Africa Cecilia Kimani 10Pentecostalism and Modern Audiovisual Media Birgit Meyer 11Rekindling Efficacy: Storytelling for Health Kimani Njogu 12The Media in Education Charles Ngome 13Horn of Africa and Kenya Diaspora Websites as Alternative Media Sources Ann Biersteker 14Popular Dance Music and the Media John Collins 15Media Parenting and the Construction of Media Identities in Northern Nigerian Muslim Hausa Video Films Abdalla Uba Adamu Part III: The Media and Identity: The Local Media 16'To Make Strange Things Possible' The Photomontages of the Bakor Photo Studio in Lamu, Kenya Heike Behrend 17Musical Images and Imaginations: Tanzania Music Videos Kelly M. Askew 18Political Ridicule: Medialized Notions of 'Transparent Concealment' Bantu Mwaura 19Names, Cloth and Identity: A Case from West Africa Michelle Gilbert 20Museums in Africa Simiyu Wandibba 21Literary Prizes, Book Prizes and African Writing Walter Bgoya 22Innovating 'AlterNative' Identities: Nairobi Matatu Culture Mbugua wa Mungai 23Bringing Change through Laughter: Cartooning in Kenya Patrick Gathara and Mary Kabura Wanjau 24Demonic 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 Index
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