ABSTRACT
This book uses decolonisation as a lens to interrogate political communication styles, performance, and practice in Africa and the diaspora.
The book interrogates the theory and practice of political communication, using decolonial research methods to begin a process of self-reflexivity and the creation of a new approach to knowledge production about African political communication. In doing so, it explores political communication approaches that might until recently have been considered subversive or dissident: forms of political communication that served to challenge imposed western norms and to empower African citizens and their histories. Centring African scholarship, the book draws on case studies from across the continent, including Zimbabwe, South Africa, Nigeria and Ghana.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars of politics, media and communication in Africa.
The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003111962, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|36 pages
Decolonial research
chapter 3|19 pages
Conspicuous and performative blackness as decolonial political branding against the myth of the post-colonial society
part II|76 pages
Film and photography as activism
chapter 5|15 pages
Documentary film as political communication in post-apartheid South Africa
chapter 6|12 pages
Remembering and memorialising
chapter 7|18 pages
“Killing with kindness”
part III|70 pages
Music, radio, and social media as politicised “spaces”
part IV|33 pages
The media, the digital public sphere and decoloniality