Decolonising Political Communication in Africa: Reframing Ontologies
Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge (2022), xxviii, 226 pp.
Contains figures, index
Series: Routledge Contemporary Africa Series
ISBN 978-0-367-63031-7 (pbk); 978-1-003-11196-2 (ebook)
"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." (Publisher description)
Foreword: Political Communication for Upending Colonialism and its Legacies / Colin Chasi, p.xxiii
1 Reframing African Ontologies in the era of Decolonisation / Beschara Karam and Bruce Mutsvairo, 1
PART I. DECOLONIAL RESEARCH
2 Decolonising Conflict Reporting: Media and Election Violence in Zimbabwe / Tendai Chari, 11
3 Conspicuous and Performative Blackness as Decolonial Political Branding Against the Myth of the Post-Colonial Society: A Case of the EFF [South Africa] / Rofhiwa Felicia Mukhudwana, 26
PART II. FILM AND PHOTOGRAPHY AS ACTIVISM: DECOLONISATION AND PERFORMANCE
4 Zanele Muholi's Work as Political Communication and Decolonisation [South Africa] / Beschara Karam, 47
5 Documentary Film as Political Communication in Post-Apartheid South Africa / Pier-Paolo Frassinelli, 64
6 Remembering and Memorising: The Efficacy of Photography in Political Communication in Postcolonial Africa / George Nyabuga, 79
7 "Killing with Kindness": Political Icons, Socio-Cultural Victims: Visual Coloniality of the Siddis of Karnataka, India / Sayan Dey, 91
8 On the Question of Decolonisation, Gender and Political Communication / Sally Osei-Appiah, 109
PART III. MUSIC, RADIO AND SOCIAL MEDIA AS POITICISED "SPACES"
9 Freedom in the Jazz Imaginary: Twentieth Century Aesthetic Revolt / Salim Washington, 123
10 Empowering Communities through Liberalisation of Airwaves in Ghana / Africanus L. Diedong, 150
11 In the Realm of Uncertainty: Kenya's Ghetto Radio as Politicised Space / Wilson Ugangu, 165
12 Social Media as a Sphere of Political Disruption [Zimbabwe] / Trust Matsilele and Bruce Mutsvairo, 179
13 Transformation, Fragmentation and Decolonisation: The Contested Role of the Media in Postcolonial South Africa / Ylva Rodny-Gumede, 193
14 The Voice of the Voiceless? Decoloniality and Online Radical Discourses in South Africa / Lorenzo Dalvit, 207
1 Reframing African Ontologies in the era of Decolonisation / Beschara Karam and Bruce Mutsvairo, 1
PART I. DECOLONIAL RESEARCH
2 Decolonising Conflict Reporting: Media and Election Violence in Zimbabwe / Tendai Chari, 11
3 Conspicuous and Performative Blackness as Decolonial Political Branding Against the Myth of the Post-Colonial Society: A Case of the EFF [South Africa] / Rofhiwa Felicia Mukhudwana, 26
PART II. FILM AND PHOTOGRAPHY AS ACTIVISM: DECOLONISATION AND PERFORMANCE
4 Zanele Muholi's Work as Political Communication and Decolonisation [South Africa] / Beschara Karam, 47
5 Documentary Film as Political Communication in Post-Apartheid South Africa / Pier-Paolo Frassinelli, 64
6 Remembering and Memorising: The Efficacy of Photography in Political Communication in Postcolonial Africa / George Nyabuga, 79
7 "Killing with Kindness": Political Icons, Socio-Cultural Victims: Visual Coloniality of the Siddis of Karnataka, India / Sayan Dey, 91
8 On the Question of Decolonisation, Gender and Political Communication / Sally Osei-Appiah, 109
PART III. MUSIC, RADIO AND SOCIAL MEDIA AS POITICISED "SPACES"
9 Freedom in the Jazz Imaginary: Twentieth Century Aesthetic Revolt / Salim Washington, 123
10 Empowering Communities through Liberalisation of Airwaves in Ghana / Africanus L. Diedong, 150
11 In the Realm of Uncertainty: Kenya's Ghetto Radio as Politicised Space / Wilson Ugangu, 165
12 Social Media as a Sphere of Political Disruption [Zimbabwe] / Trust Matsilele and Bruce Mutsvairo, 179
13 Transformation, Fragmentation and Decolonisation: The Contested Role of the Media in Postcolonial South Africa / Ylva Rodny-Gumede, 193
14 The Voice of the Voiceless? Decoloniality and Online Radical Discourses in South Africa / Lorenzo Dalvit, 207
