LEADER 04922nam 2200745Ia 450 001 9910777939803321 005 20230207230331.0 010 $a0-7486-5301-5 010 $a1-282-13653-4 010 $a9786612136535 010 $a0-7486-3521-1 024 7 $a10.1515/9780748635214 035 $a(CKB)1000000000766526 035 $a(EBL)448744 035 $a(OCoLC)430840333 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000200234 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11954337 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000200234 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10196627 035 $a(PQKB)11382479 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000055734 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC448744 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL448744 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10309077 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL213653 035 $a(DE-B1597)616463 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780748635214 035 $a(OCoLC)1306538544 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000766526 100 $a20081113d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aMedia and identity in Africa$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Kimani Njogu and John F.M. Middleton 210 $aEdinburgh $cEdinburgh University Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (353 p.) 225 1 $aInternational African seminars 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7486-3522-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Copyright; CONTENTS; CONTRIBUTORS; PROLOGUE; PART I THE MEDIA, COMMUNITY AND IDENTITY; 1 Karin Barber ORALITY, THE MEDIA AND NEW POPULAR CULTURES IN AFRICA; 2 Paul Tiyambe Zeleza THE MEDIA IN SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT IN CONTEMPORARY AFRICA; 3 Alamin Mazrui LANGUAGE AND THE MEDIA IN AFRICA: BETWEEN THE OLD EMPIRE AND THE NEW; 4 Goretti Linda Nassanga REFLECTIONS ON THE MEDIA IN AFRICA: STRANGERS IN A MIRROR?; 5 Francis B. Nyamnjoh AFRICA'S MEDIA: DEMOCRACY AND BELON; 6 John Kiarie Wa'Njogu REPRESENTATION OF AFRICAIN THE WESTERN MEDIA: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES 327 $a7 Eric Masinde Aseka MEDIA CONSUMERISM AND CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION8 Macharia Munene AFRICAN INTELLECTUALS IN A HOSTILE MEDIA ENVIRONMENT; PART II THE MEDIA AND IDENTITY: THE GLOBAL MEDIA; 9 Cecilia Kimani PUBLISHING IN AFRICA; 10 Birgit Meyer PENTECOSTALISM AND MODERN AUDIOVISUAL MEDIA; 11 Kimani Njogu REKINDLING EFFICACY: STORYTELLING FOR HEALTH; 12 Charles Ngome THE MEDIA IN EDUCATION; 13 Ann Biersteker HORN OF AFRICA AND KENYA DIASPORA WEBSITES AS ALTERNATIVE MEDIA SOURCES; 14 John Collins POPULAR DANCE MUSIC AND THE MEDIA 327 $a15 Abdalla Uba Adamu MEDIA PARENTING AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF MEDIA IDENTITIES IN NORTHERN NIGERIAN MUSLIM HAUSA VIDEO FILMSPART III THE MEDIA AND IDENTITY: THE LOCAL MEDIA; 16 Heike Behrend 'TO MAKE STRANGE THINGS POSSIBLE': THE PHOTOMONTAGES OF THE BAKOR PHOTO STUDIO IN LAMU, KENYA; 17 Kelly M. Askew MUSICAL IMAGES AND IMAGINATIONS: TANZANIAN MUSIC VIDEOS; 18 Bantu Mwaura POLITICAL RIDICULE: MEDIATIZED NOTIONS OF 'TRANSPARENT CONCEALMENT'; 19 Michelle Gilbert NAMES, CLOTH AND IDENTITY: A CASE FROM WEST AFRICA; 20 Simiyu Wandibba MUSEUMS IN AFRICA 327 $a21 Walter Bgoya LITERARY PRIZES, BOOK PRIZES AND AFRICAN WRITING22 Mbugua wa MungaiI NNOVATING 'ALTERNATIVE' IDENTITIES: NAIROBI MATATU CULTURE; 23 Patrick Gathara and Mary Kabura Wanjau BRINGING CHANGE THROUGH LAUGHTER: CARTOONING IN KENYA; 24 Diane M. Ciekawy DEMONIC TRADITION: REPRESENTATIONS OF OATHING IN NEWSPAPER COVERAGE OF THE 1997 CRISIS IN COASTAL KENYA; V. Y. Mudimbe EPILOGUE: IN THE NAME OF SIMILITUDE; INDEX 330 $aStudies of the media in Africa, incorporating both African and international perspectives, are few. The thirty papers collected here were presented at a seminar organised and hosted by the Kenya-based Twaweza Communications and the International African Institute in Nairobi in 2004. They demonstrate how media outlets are used to perpetuate, question or modify the unequal power relations between the North and the South. Focusing on east Africa, the papers include discussions of the construction of old and new social entities, as defined by class, gender, ethnicity, political and economic differ 410 0$aInternational African seminars. 606 $aMass media$zAfrica 606 $aMass media$xSocial aspects$zAfrica 606 $aMass media$xPolitical aspects$zAfrica 615 0$aMass media 615 0$aMass media$xSocial aspects 615 0$aMass media$xPolitical aspects 676 $a302.23096 700 $aNjogu$b Kimani, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01096185 701 $aMiddleton$b John$f1921-2009$0887302 701 $aNjogu$b Kimani$01096185 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777939803321 996 $aMedia and identity in Africa$93724121 997 $aUNINA