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.

part I|36 pages

Decolonial research

chapter 2|15 pages

Decolonising conflict reporting

Media and election violence in Zimbabwe
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part II|76 pages

Film and photography as activism

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chapter 6|12 pages

Remembering and memorialising

The efficacy of photography in political communication in postcolonial Africa
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chapter 7|18 pages

“Killing with kindness”

Political icons, socio-cultural victims: visual coloniality of the Siddis of Karnataka, India
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part III|70 pages

Music, radio, and social media as politicised “spaces”

chapter 9|27 pages

Freedom in the jazz imaginary

Twentieth-century aesthetic revolt
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chapter 11|14 pages

In the realm of uncertainty

Kenya's Ghetto Radio as politicised space
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part IV|33 pages

The media, the digital public sphere and decoloniality

chapter 13|14 pages

Transformation, fragmentation and decolonisation

The contested role of the media in postcolonial South Africa
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