| Description |
xv, 320 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: The soundscapes of radio in Africa / Liz Gunner, Dina Ligaga and Dumisani Moyo -- Talk radio and politics in Ghana: exploring civic and (un)civil discourse in the public sphere / Wisdom J. Tettey -- From diffusion to dialogic space: FM radio stations in Kenya / Christopher Joseph Odhiambo -- Contesting mainstream media power: mediating the Zimbabwe crisis through clandestine radio / Dumisani Moyo -- Equivocal resonances: Islamic revival and female radio 'preachers' in urban Mali / Dorothea E. Schulz -- What is the relationship between hate radio and violence? rethinking Rwanda's 'Radio machete' / Scott Straus -- Why radio is Africa's medium of choice in the global age / Winston Mano -- Bantustan identity, censorship and subversion on northern Sotho Radio under apartheid, 1960s-80s / Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi -- South African radio in a saucepan / David B. Coplan -- Radio theatre: the moral play in the historical context of state control and censorship of broadcasting in Kenya / Dina Ligaga -- IsiZulu radio drama and the modern subject: restless identities in South Africa in the 1970s / Liz Gunner -- Radio Okape: 100 per cent Congolese / Stephanie Wolters -- Talk radio, democracy and the public sphere: 567MW in Cape Town / Tanja Bosch -- Radio and religion: a case of difference and diversity / Maria Frahm-Arp -- Voices from without: The African National Congress, its radio, its allies and exile, 1960-1984 / Stephen R. Davis -- Airing the politics of nation: radio in Angola, past and present / Marissa J. Moorman -- Radio in zones of conflict: abnormal measures for abnormal circumstances / David Smith -- Multiple publics, multiple languages: radio and the contestations of broadcasting language policy in Uganda / Monica B. Chibita |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-305) and index |
| Subject |
Radio broadcasting -- Social aspects -- Africa.
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| Author |
Gunner, Elizabeth.
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Ligaga, Dina.
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Moyo, Dumisani.
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| ISBN |
9781847010612 (hbk.) |
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184701061X (hbk.) |
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