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Disputed Archival Heritage

James Lowry (ed.)

London; New York: Routledge (2023), xv, 342 pp.

"Disputed Archival Heritage brings important new perspectives into the discourse on displaced archives. In contrast to shared or joint heritage framings, the book considers the implications of force, violence and loss in the displacement of archival heritage. With chapters from established and emerg ... more

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Afrika und die Welt: Betrachtungen zur Globalgeschichte Afrikas in der Neuzeit

Arno Sonderegger

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2022), 335 pp.

"Bis heute hält sich der globale Norden für kompetent, Erwartungen an Afrika zu formulieren und dessen Entwicklungen zu bewerten Der Afrikawissenschaftler Arno Sonderegger zeichnet nach, wie Europäer aus imaginierter Überlegenheit heraus über Jahrhunderte den Sklavenhandel aus Afrika betrieben ... more

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Mahatma Gandhi and Mass Media: Mediating Conflict and Social Change

Teresa Joseph

London; New York: Routledge (2022), xiv, 180 pp.

"This book explores Gandhi's engagement with print news media. It examines how Gandhi, the man and his message, negotiated with the sociopolitical circumstances of his milieu and the methods of communication that he adopted towards this end. It analyses the role that he played in building up alterna ... more

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Reading the Radio-Magazine: Culture, Decolonization and the Paigc’s Rádio libertação

Alexandra Reza

Interventions, volume 24, issue 6 (2022), pp. 857-878

"This essay examines the history of the PAIGC radio station Rádio Libertação, broadcast from Conakry from 1967. The essay asks how to read the radio station today, and suggests we might see the radio station as a manifestation – albeit limited in scope and life span – of the commitment Amílc ... more

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Building an Imperial Broadcasting Network as the Empire Disintegrated: The Birth of Radio in the French Sub-Saharan African Colonies During Decolonization

Thomas Leyris

Journal of Radio & Audio Media, volume 29, issue 1 (2022), pp. 120-135

"Whereas France owned the second most important empire in the world in 1945, the colonial domination paradoxically leaned very little on radio broadcasting. It was not until 1954 that the French governement, under the impulsion of Pierre Schaeffer, inventor of the “musique concrète,” launched a ... more

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Deutschland postkolonial? Die Gegenwart der imperialen Vergangenheit

Marianne Bechhaus-Gerst, Joachim Zeller (eds.)

Berlin: Metropol Verlag, 2., aktual. und erw. Aufl. (2021), 610 pp.

"Der Umgang mit der Kolonialgeschichte, die hierzulande lange im Schatten der Aufarbeitung des Nationalsozialismus und des Holocaust stand, unterliegt gegenwärtig einem grundlegenden Wandel. Zwar zählt auch Deutschland faktisch zu den postkolonialen Gesellschaften Europas, doch ist diese Tatsache ... more

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Widerstand: Drei Generationen antikolonialer Protest in Kamerun = Resistance: Trois générations de lutte anticoloniale au Cameroun

Initiative Perspektivwechsel (ed.)

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb);Initiative Perspektivwechsel (2021), 145, 145 pp.

"In den Comicgeschichten werden drei Generationen antikolonialen Widerstands in Kamerun skizziert. Das zentralafrikanische Land war 35 Jahre lang deutsche Kolonie. Die Geschichten des kamerunischen Königs Duala Manga Bell, der Anlu-Rebellion der Kom-Frauen sowie des Aktivisten André Blaise Essama ... more

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Zurückgeben: Über die Restitution afrikanischer Kulturgüter

Felwine Sarr, Bénédicte Savoy

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2020), 223 pp.

"Oft ging Kolonisation mit dem Raub von Kultur- und Kunstgütern der unterworfenen Bevölkerungen einher. Dabei wird das fremde Kulturerbe – abgeschnitten von seinen spirituellen und historischen Ursprüngen – meist in privaten Sammlungen oder Museen aufbewahrt. Die Objekte dienen als Statussymb ... more

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Cinemas of the Mozambican Revolution: Anti-Colonialism, Independence and Internationalism in Filmmaking, 1968-1991

Ros Gray

Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer (2020), xvi, 292 pp.

"In one of the first cultural acts to follow independence in 1975, Frelimo's new socialist government of Mozambique set up a National Institute of Cinema (the INC). In a country where many people had little previous experience of cinema, the INC was tasked to "deliver to the people an image of the p ... more

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Writing the New Nation in a West African Borderland: Ablode Safui (the Key to Freedom)

Holiday Kamedja

Kate Skinner (transl.)

Oxford: Oxford University Press (2019), cv, 243 pp.

"This book rethinks the history of decolonisation and new nationhood in the Ghana-Togo borderlands, and speaks to an increasingly urgent debate on the production of knowledge about Africa. It does this through the close reading, translation and analysis of a unique primary source - a newspaper entit ... more

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India's State-Run Media: Broadcasting, Power, and Narrative

Sanjay Asthana

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2019), xiii, 210 pp.

"India's State-run Media presents a new perspective on broadcasting by bringing together two neglected areas of research in media studies in India - the intertwined genealogies of sovereignty, public, religion, and nation in radio and television, and the spatiotemporal dynamics of broadcasting into ... more

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The Colonial Documentary Film in South and South-East Asia

Ian Aitken, Camille Deprez (eds.)

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2017), x, 246 pp.

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Division in the Land of ‘the Unspoken’: Examining Journalistic Practice in Contemporary New Caledonia

Marie M’Balla-Ndi

MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication Research, volume 33, issue 62 (2017), pp. 52-71

"While the Kanaks’ pro-independence protests against French settlers have been extensively documented in the global media and academic literature, another protest – more subtle and diffused, but deeply embedded – is now taking place in New Caledonia (South Pacific) to decide whether to remain ... more

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(Re)imagining African Independence: Film, Visual Arts and the Fall of the Portuguese Empire

Maria do Carmo Piçarra, Teresa Castro (eds.)

Oxford et al.: Peter Lang (2017), xvi, 287 pp.

"The fortieth anniversary of the independence of the African countries colonized by Portugal presents a valuable opportunity to reassess how colonialism has been «imagined» through the medium of the moving image. The essays collected in this volume investigate Portuguese colonialism and its filmic ... more

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Political Communication and Mobilisation: The Hindi Media in India

Taberez Ahmed Neyazi

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2017), xv, 234 pp.

"This book provides a fresh perspective on the importance of the Hindi media in India's political, social and economic transformation with evidence from the countryside and the cities. Accessed by more than forty percent of the public, it continues to play an important role in building political awa ... more

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Deutscher Kolonialismus: Fragmente seiner Geschichte und Gegenwart

Sebastian Gottschalk, Heike Hartmann, Irene Hilden, Stefanie Müller, Arnulf Scriba

Berlin; Darmstadt: Deutsches Historisches Museum;Theiss Verlag (2016), 333 pp.

"In der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jhs. baute Deutschland ein weites Kolonialreich auf. Dass dieser Teil der deutschen Geschichte heute oft vergessen ist, hängt mit dem frühen Verlust der Kolonien nach der Niederlage im Westen Weltkrieg zusammen. Kolonialgeschichte aber ist ein zentraler Teil einer g ... more

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Reporting on the Independence of the Belgian Congo: Mwissa Camus, the Dean of Congolese Journalists

Marie Fierens

African Journalism Studies, volume 37, issue 1 (2016), pp. 81-99

"Many individuals were involved in the Belgian Congo's attainment of independence. Born in 1931, Mwissa Camus, the dean of Congolese journalists, is one of them. Even though he was opposed to this idea and struggled to maintain his status as member of a certain ‘elite’, his career sheds light on ... more

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Dekolonisation: Das Ende der Imperien

Jan C. Jansen, Jürgen Osterhammel

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2014), 144 pp.

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Cinema and Development in West Africa

James Eskridge Genova

Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2013), xiv, 222 pp.

"Cinema and Development in West Africa shows how the film industry in Francophone West African countries played an important role in executing strategies of nation building during the transition from French rule to the early postcolonial period. James E. Genova sees the construction of African ident ... more

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Promoting National Unity: The Role of Radio Broadcasting in the Process of Decolonisation in Namibia and Zambia

Robert Heinze

Universität Konstanz, Doctoral Thesis (2012), iv, 313 pp.

"This thesis operates from the observation that "Decolonising the Mind", i.e. a cultural decolonisation process, was needed after the independence of African countries to support and flesh out political decolonisation. Culture, as shown, played a major role in the mobilisation of support for nationa ... list movements, but after independence nationalist culture was just one among many. In both cases presented here, the most pressing issue after political independence was how to deal with the different identities that had previously existed and were onyl partially cushioned by political and cultural nationalism. Now that the political kingdom had been attained, the different language, cultural and political groups started to ask questions about their place in this kingdom. Although many politicians shared the idea that "once you have a national identity, the question of culture becomes something which flows automatically", it soon turned out to be misguided. Media and education were seen to be the major tools in "decolonising the mind". However, a close analysis of the electronic media in the two cases presented here shows that the policies for promoting national unity in programmes were largely ineffective. Instead, radio programmes, both before and after independence, provided a space to negotiate issues of national identity. This space was sometimes more, sometimes less restricted, but listeners used it as much as they could. Colonial media had, for all their focus on political control and censorship, accompanied and mediated social change. As described, this happened specifically in cultural programmes, where broadcasters were much freer in their work. However, Northern Rhodesian media were supposed to work as a catalyst to further the process of modernisation, and to help its listeners come to terms with the transition from being 'traditional' to becoming 'modern' Africans. In the Apartheid broadcasting system, culture was used consciously to construct a specific 'ethnic' identity, emphasising cultural traditions of the different language groups. But while the intentions were different, both broadcasting institutions were at the centre of negotiating ideas of tradition and modernity. Both were also established because there was a need to legitimate the respective political system. Be it the Central African Federation or a 'democratic' "South West Africa/ Namibia", the political models promoted by the authorities could not just be imposed on the people. The radios were established to give reality to these constructs, to make listeners identify with a social, political and cultural space that had been defined by colonial authorities. As shown, colonial ideologies not only surfaced in obvious propaganda programmes but also significantly determined the technical and managerial setup of the stations. While radio infrastructure was formed and reformed to structure that space – by linking three territories with different political and social power structures or, following Apartheid ideology, by assigning each language group their own space according to the homeland system – culturally as well as geographically. As shown, infrastructure mirrored the proposed political models, not just in its technical aspects (i.e., the stations' footprints, transmitting posts and frequencies), but also in management structure. As the Federal Broadcasting Services were subdivided in European and African Services, respectively catering for the whole White or Black population of all three territories, the South West African Broadcasting Corporation separated first Black and White, then subdivided the three Departments in the several language Services, each broadcasting to the designated "homeland". This infrastructure not only formed the whole process of programme production and reception but was also part of it as it imparted ideological considerations. The first order of business for independent countries was therfore to restructure the radio according to the needs of the new nations." (Conclusion, page 274-275) more