1 Theorising image: a relational approach / Julia Gallagher
2 Constructing images of Africa: from troubled pan-African media to sprawling Nollywood / George Ogola
3 International news and the image of Africa: new storytellers, new narratives? / Mel Bunce
4 'Image management' in east Africa: Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya and their donors / Jonathan Fisher
5 Mirrors, mimicry and the spectre of a failed state: how the government of Ethiopia deploys image / Emmanuel Fanta
6 Images of a traditional authority: the case of Ker Kwaro Acholi in northern Uganda / Clare Paine
7 The war of images in the Ivoirian post-electoral crisis: the role of news and online blogs in constructing political personas / Anne Schumann
8 Negotiating narratives of human rights abuses: image management in conflicts in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo / Georgina Holmes
9 Re-imagining Ethiopia: from campaign imagery to contemporary art / Wanja Kimani
10 Silent bodies and dissident vernaculars: representations of the body in South African fiction and film / Lizzy Attree