[PDF] Politics And Journalism In Francophone Africa eBook

Author : Marie-Soleil Frère
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 39,50 MB
Release : 2022-08-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 303099399X

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This book provides a comprehensive approach of the media, journalism and politics in Sub-Saharan Francophone Africa. The author argues that there are common features that the media and journalism share in the seventeen countries of Francophone Africa and these make the local media systems different from what they are in neighboring English-speaking African countries, and in the rest of the world. The approach of the media in French-speaking Africa has not only to be “de-Westernized”, but also to step out of general overviews considering “African media." This project shows the historical, political, economic and sociological characteristics of the media systems of seventeen French-speaking countries of Africa.

Author : O. Mudhai
Publisher : Springer
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 50,49 MB
Release : 2009-05-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0230621759

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This book examines the claims that new information and communication technologies (ICTs) are catalysts of democratic change in Africa. It takes optimist, pragmatist-realist and pessimist stances on various political actors and institutions, from government units and political parties to civil society organizations and minority groups.

Author : Festus Eribo
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 25,37 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Freedom of the press
ISBN : 9780865435513

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Recent years have seen considerable growth in the media in Africa with increases in the number of newspapers and radio and television stations. At the same time there has been an increase in the number of arrests of journalists and broadcasters and various forms of censorship have been introduced. The essays in this volume examine press censorship, past and present, and bring a fresh perspective to the position of the mass media in the African continent.

Author : Marie-Soleil Frere
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 17,59 MB
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1780321066

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Over the past ten years, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Chad, Central African Republic, Republic of Congo and Rwanda all organized pluralist elections in a post conflict context, having experienced an armed conflict which either interrupted or prevented democratization processes. These polls were organized with the support of the international community, which viewed them as a crucial step in the peace-building process. The local media's role throughout was supposed to be to ensure that an electoral process is actually 'free and fair' - a role that becomes even more crucial in countries where the media have previously being perceived as warmongers or peace-builders in the conflicts. Giving a voice to African journalists and analysing the work they have been publishing or broadcasting during these elections, African media specialist Marie-Soleil Frere explores if and how the local media fulfilled their duties. In doing so, the book reveals journalists' professional challenges at a time when much is expected from the media, as well as the intense political pressure faced that can make their work particularly difficult. Insightful and comprehensive, Elections and the Media in Post-Conflict Africa underlines both the importance and the fragility of the role of the media in a democratic system.

Author : Francis B. Nyamnjoh
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 18,33 MB
Release : 2005-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781842775837

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An overview of the press and mass media in Africa today and their contribution to democratization

Author : Louise M. Bourgault
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 38,38 MB
Release : 1995-06-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780253113092

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Mass Media in Sub-Saharan Africa analyzes how historical, political, economic, social, cultural, and stylistic factors have shaped media products in African radio, television, and newspapers. Bourgault investigates three principal influences: the pre-colonial legacy of the oral tradition, the presence of an alienated managerial class, and the domination of African nations by systems based on political patronage. The first two chapters provide the theoretical framework. Subsequent chapters look at the management of the electronic media, radio and television broadcasting in content and practice, the history of print media, and the discourse style found in the press. This work provides a wealth of historical information on media systems, particularly those of the former anglophone and francophone countries, together with recent developments in satellite communication, small-systems technology, and the current move toward decentralization and privatization. Bourgault also considers the political shifts affecting Africa in the 1990s and offers a radical blueprint for more responsive and informative media in the sub-Saharan area.

Author : Marie-Soleil Frère
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 32,8 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Journalism
ISBN : 9781588264657

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In this book, Marie-Soleil Frère synthesises the interaction between the mass media and conflict in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Rwanda, Congo-Brazzaville, the Central African Republic, Chad, Cameroon, Gabon and Equatorial Guinea.

Author : Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara
Publisher : Springer
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 41,90 MB
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1137541091

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This book contributes to a broadened theorisation of journalism by exploring the intricacies of African journalism and its connections with the material realities that underpin the profession on the continent. It pulls together theoretically driven studies that collectively deploy a wide range of evidence to shed some light on newsmaking cultures in Africa – the everyday routines, defining epistemologies, as well as ethical dilemmas. The volume digs beneath the standardised and universalised veneer of professionalism to unpack routine practices and normative trends shaped by local factors, including the structural conditions of deprivation, entrenched political instability (and interference), pervasive neo-patrimonial governance systems, and the influences of technological developments. These varied and complex circumstances are shown to profoundly shape the foundations of journalism in Africa, resulting in routine practices that are both normatively distinct and equally in tune with (imported) Western journalistic cultures. The book thus broadly points to the dialectical nature of news production and the inconsistent and contradictory relationships that characterise news production cultures in Africa.

Author : Festus Eribo
Publisher :
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 36,12 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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Journalism and Mass Communication in Africa provides the first in-depth analysis of the evolution of mass communication and the impact of new media technologies in Cameroon. Written and edited by African scholars, this volume maps out the changing media ecology of Cameroon and provides practical survey methods for communication research. The work details the impact mass public communication has had on the empowerment of Cameroon's 15 million people and the development of grassroots participatory democracy.