ABSTRACT
This chapter revisits the debate on the decolonisation of journalism ethics in Africa within the context of what some scholars have termed the decolonial turn in journalism theory and practice. It situates the debate within the broader concerns around the coloniality of power, knowledge and being as theorised by decolonial scholars. The chapter proposes the adoption of what some leading scholars in the study of media ethics have characterised as ‘cosmopolitan journalism ethics’, it shines the light on the important contributions of local epistemologies and ethical frameworks such as Afriethics, communitarianism and Ubuntu in terms of broadening the decolonial project in the Global South. Decolonial political thought has reanimated and reconfigured scholarship in the social sciences and to some degree, the hard sciences. Decolonial thought and struggles can be taken as those ideas and actions counterposed to and mobilised against the operation of coloniality.
