Media and Identity in Africa (International African Seminars)

Copyright......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 8
PROLOGUE......Page 10
PART I THE MEDIA, COMMUNITY AND IDENTITY......Page 20
1 Karin Barber ORALITY, THE MEDIA AND NEW POPULAR CULTURES IN AFRICA......Page 22
2 Paul Tiyambe Zeleza THE MEDIA IN SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT IN CONTEMPORARY AFRICA......Page 38
3 Alamin Mazrui LANGUAGE AND THE MEDIA IN AFRICA: BETWEEN THE OLD EMPIRE AND THE NEW......Page 55
4 Goretti Linda Nassanga REFLECTIONS ON THE MEDIA IN AFRICA: STRANGERS IN A MIRROR?......Page 68
5 Francis B. Nyamnjoh AFRICA’S MEDIA: DEMOCRACY AND BELON......Page 81
6 John Kiarie Wa’Njogu REPRESENTATION OF AFRICAIN THE WESTERN MEDIA: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES......Page 95
7 Eric Masinde Aseka MEDIA CONSUMERISM AND CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION......Page 103
8 Macharia Munene AFRICAN INTELLECTUALS IN A HOSTILE MEDIA ENVIRONMENT......Page 113
PART II THE MEDIA AND IDENTITY: THE GLOBAL MEDIA......Page 120
9 Cecilia Kimani PUBLISHING IN AFRICA......Page 122
10 Birgit Meyer PENTECOSTALISM AND MODERN AUDIOVISUAL MEDIA......Page 133
11 Kimani Njogu REKINDLING EFFICACY: STORYTELLING FOR HEALTH......Page 143
12 Charles Ngome THE MEDIA IN EDUCATION......Page 158
13 Ann Biersteker HORN OF AFRICA AND KENYA DIASPORA WEBSITES AS ALTERNATIVE MEDIA SOURCES......Page 170
14 John Collins POPULAR DANCE MUSIC AND THE MEDIA......Page 181
15 Abdalla Uba Adamu MEDIA PARENTING AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF MEDIA IDENTITIES IN NORTHERN NIGERIAN MUSLIM HAUSA VIDEO FILMS......Page 190
PART III THE MEDIA AND IDENTITY: THE LOCAL MEDIA......Page 204
16 Heike Behrend ‘TO MAKE STRANGE THINGS POSSIBLE’: THE PHOTOMONTAGES OF THE BAKOR PHOTO STUDIO IN LAMU, KENYA......Page 206
17 Kelly M. Askew MUSICAL IMAGES AND IMAGINATIONS: TANZANIAN MUSIC VIDEOS......Page 227
18 Bantu Mwaura POLITICAL RIDICULE: MEDIATIZED NOTIONS OF ‘TRANSPARENT CONCEALMENT’......Page 237
19 Michelle Gilbert NAMES, CLOTH AND IDENTITY: A CASE FROM WEST AFRICA......Page 245
20 Simiyu Wandibba MUSEUMS IN AFRICA......Page 264
21 Walter Bgoya LITERARY PRIZES, BOOK PRIZES AND AFRICAN WRITING......Page 277
22 Mbugua wa MungaiI NNOVATING ‘ALTERNATIVE’ IDENTITIES: NAIROBI MATATU CULTURE......Page 286
23 Patrick Gathara and Mary Kabura Wanjau BRINGING CHANGE THROUGH LAUGHTER: CARTOONING IN KENYA......Page 294
24 Diane M. Ciekawy DEMONIC TRADITION: REPRESENTATIONS OF OATHING IN NEWSPAPER COVERAGE OF THE 1997 CRISIS IN COASTAL KENYA......Page 306
V. Y. Mudimbe EPILOGUE: IN THE NAME OF SIMILITUDE......Page 327
INDEX......Page 344