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Media, Culture, and Decolonization: Re-righting the Subaltern Histories of Ghana

New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press (2025), 184 pp.

Contains 11 images, index

ISBN 978-1-978841-67-3 (pdf); 978-1-978841-64-2 (pbk)

"Through Dagbaŋ epistemologies and knowledge systems, this book examines media by highlighting how African languages, cultures, and traditions can shift how we think of knowledge. It is an offering to anyone curious about the relationship between culture, language, and media. By focusing on African language media in Ghana such as film, television, and radio, the book emphasizes the importance of espousing a decolonial politic and praxis in the process of co-creating knowledge with Indigenous communities. It connects the struggles of global majority countries and demonstrates the ways in which (neo)colonialism and imperialism impede the work toward liberatory futures. This book demonstrates the potential that African language media hold as tools of cultural and epistemological decolonization." (Publisher description)
Introduction: Decolonizing African Media Studies
1 Bilchiinsi Philosophy, Media and Global Indigenous Epistemologies
2 Technology, Literacy and Media Development in Northern Ghana
3 Subalterns, Griots and Media
4 African Cinemas, Globalization and Resistance
5 Movie Distribution, Urban Architecture and the Newsification of Movies
6 Television for Social Change
Conclusion: Resisting Cultural Imperialism