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Power, Politics and the Identity in South African Media

Adrian Hadland, Eric Louw, Simphiwe Sesanti, Herman Wasserman (eds.)

Cape Town: HSRC Press (2008), vii, 403 pp.

"South Africa offers a rich context for the study of the interrelationship between the media and identity. The essays collected here explore the many diverse elements of this interconnection, and give fresh focus to topics that scholarship has tended to overlook, such as the pervasive impact of tabl ... more

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Knowledge Production and Publishing in Africa

Abebe Zegeye

CODESRIA Bulletin (Dakar), issue 3-4 (2005), pp. 31-34

"The point is that Africa, whether South, East or West, is still dominated by Western publishers. They have been doing sterling work. But the fact that only a small section of locals have control over what is published has implications for the kind of material that is published." (GIZ Library Bonn)

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Media, Identity and the Public Sphere in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Abebe Zegeye, Richard L. Harris (eds.)

Leiden: Brill (2003), 194 pp.

"The essays in this collection reveal that the social and political development of post-apartheid South Africa depends to an important degree on the evolving cultural, social and political identities of its diverse population and on the role of the media of mass communications in the country's new m ... more