"The book examines the reform of the communication sector in South Africa as a detailed and extended case study in political transformation - the transition from apartheid to democracy. The reform of broadcasting, telecommunications, the state information agency and the print press from apartheid-al
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igned apparatuses to accountable democratic institutions took place via a complex political process in which civil society activism, embodying a post-social democratic ideal, largely won out over the powerful forces of formal market capitalism and older models of state control. In the cautious acceptance of the market, the civil society organizations sought to use the dynamism of the market while thwarting its inevitable inequities. Forged in the crucible of a difficult transition to democracy, communication reform in South Africa was navigated between the National Party's embrace of the market and the African National Congress leadership's default statist orientation." (Publisher description)
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"Five essays that seek to examine the challenges that women face in African studies scholarly publishing, and which aims to offer insights “into the shifting, intellectual, institutional, and ideological contexts and contests in African studies, as practiced in Africa and the North, by men and wom
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en, and among women themselves who are united by their gender as they are separated by the politics of race, resources, and location.” The book attempts to do three things: first, analyze the patterns and prospects of women’s scholarly publishing in the mainstream media in both Africa and the North; second, outline the development of women’s presses and other publishing initiatives; and, third, examine the growth and politics of feminist scholarship in each of, and across, the two regions." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 2415)
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"Der erste Teil verfolgt die Entwicklung des afrikanischen Kinos von der kolonialen Vereinnahmung hin zum Afrozentrismus. Im zweiten Teil des Buches werden einzelne Filme vorgestellt und analysiert, wobei besonders auf typisch afrikanische Stilmittel wie der Gebrauch von Stille, der mündlichen Übe
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rlieferung und des Humors eingegangen wird. Im letzten Teil des Buches untersucht der Autor den sozialen und ökonomischen Kontext der afrikanischen Film- und Fernsehindustrie." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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