Winston Mano is Director of the Africa Media Centre, University of Westminster. He is also Principal Editor of the Journal of African Media Studies, and the author of African National Radio and Everyday Life: The Impact of Radio in the Digital Age (I.B.Tauris, forthcoming 2016). His research interests include audiences, broadcasting and medias role in development.
RACISM,ETHNICITY AND THE MEDIA INAFRICA
MEDIATING CONFLICT IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
EDITED BY
WINSTON MANO
First published in 2015 by
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Copyright Editorial Selection 2015 Winston Mano
Copyright Foreword 2015 Fackson Banda
Copyright Individual Chapters 2015 Oluyinka Esan, Elisabet Helander, Hayes Mawindi
Mabweazara, Winston Mano, Martin Nkosi Ndlela, Francis B. Nyamnjoh, Kristin Skare
Orgeret, Daniela Ricci, Nkereuwem Udoakah, Jacob Udo-Udo Jacob, Herman Wasserman,
Wendy Willems, Muhammad Jameel Yushau
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CONTENTS
Winston Mano
Francis B. Nyamnjoh
Herman Wasserman
Kristin Skare Orgeret
Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara
Nkereuwem Udoakah
Muhammad Jameel Yushau
Oluyinka Esan
Jacob Udo-Udo Jacob
Duncan Omanga
Elisabet Helander
Cecilia Strand
Felix Riedel
Daniela Ricci
Wendy Willems
Martin Nkosi Ndlela
Tables
CONTRIBUTORS
Oluyinka Esan brings non-Western perspectives to conceptualisations in media and film studies, giving insight into production practices, audience pleasures and the making of meanings. Author of Nigerian Television, Fifty Years of Television in Africa, she is Reader in School of Film and Media, University of Winchester, UK.
Elisabet Helander is a doctoral student funded by a research scholarship at Hong Kong Baptist University, China. She has a Global Media and Post-National Communication MA from SOAS, School of Oriental and African Studies, UK. Her research area is mass media in newly-democratized states with a focus on African media.
Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara is Senior Lecturer in Journalism at Falmouth University, UK. As well as serving on the editorial boards of Digital Journalism and the Journal of Alternative and Community Media, he is Associate Editor for African Journalism Studies. He edited Digital Technologies and the Evolving African Newsroom and co-edited Online Journalism in Africa. Mabweazara is currently working on a monograph titled Africas Mainstream Press in the Digital Era.
Martin Nkosi Ndlela is Associate Professor at Hedmark University College, Norway. He is currently Head of the Department of Organization and Management Studies and holds a PhD in Media and Communication from the University of Oslo, Norway. Martin has researched on various issues in media and communication.
Francis B. Nyamnjoh is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He has published widely on mobility and citizenship in Africa. His books include Africas Media, Democracy and the Politics of Belonging and Insiders and Outsiders: Citizenship and Xenophobia in Contemporary.
Kristin Skare Orgeret is Professor at the Department of Journalism and Media Studies, Oslo University College, Norway. Her research focuses mainly on the role of media and journalism in (post-)conflict and democratisation processes in Africa, Asia and Europe.
Daniela Ricci teaches cinema at La Sorbonne Nouvelle and Paris X University. She received her PhD from Lyon 3 and Howard University. She has been President of the InterCultural Organization Melisandra since 2006 and organizes the Festival Uno sguardo allAfrica in Savona, Italy. She directed and produced the documentary, Creation in Exile: Five Filmmakers in Conversation (2012).
Nkereuwem Udoakah is Associate Professor of Political Communication and Media Studies at the University of Uyo, Nigeria. He is the author of Development Communication, Special Topics in Public Relations, The Nigerian Press and Political Communication, Issues in Media Practices and several journal articles and book chapters.
Jacob Udo-Udo Jacob is Assistant Professor of Multimedia/Digital Journalism at American University of Nigeria (AUN), Nigeria. His research interest is located at the intersection between communications and socio-cultural change in Africa. Prior to AUN, he was a PhD Teaching Fellow at the Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds, UK.
Herman Wasserman is Professor and Director of the Centre for Film and Media Studies at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He has published extensively on media in post-apartheid South Africa, including the monograph Tabloid Journalism in South Africa: True Story! and the edited collections Popular Media, Democracy and Development in Africa and Press Freedom in Africa: Comparative Perspectives. He edits the journal African Journalism Studies and sits on the editorial board of several other international journals.
Wendy Willems is Assistant Professor in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. Her research interests include media culture, neo-liberalism and social change, and performance, popular culture and politics. She is co-editor of Civic Agency in Africa: Arts of Resistance in the 21st Century.
Muhammad Jameel Yushau is a researcher, journalist and public relations practitioner. He was Senior Lecturer in Media and Politics at Northumbria University, UK, and has taught at the University of Sheffield and Bayero University, Nigeria. A former staff member of the BBC World Service, he holds a PhD in Journalism from the University of Sheffield, UK.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I would like to thank all the contributors, my past and present colleagues at the University of Westminster, in particular Pete Goodwin, Colin Sparks, Paddy Scannell, Daya Thussu, Jean Seaton, Jeanette Steemers, Geoffrey Davies, Kirstin Mey, David Gauntlett and Tarik Sabry. It was Tarik who introduced me to Philippa Brewster at I.B.Tauris. She in turn introduced me to Joanna Godfrey and Cecile Rault, both very helpful in the production of the book. I also wish to thank Maria Way, Shina Babasola, Pedzi Ruhanya, Abram Magowe, David Mwenga and Anuli Agina who helped me organise the conference and also review the papers at the initial stages. The book is dedicated to my family and dedicated to the memory of my late father, Victor Mano Sigobodhla, uncles and aunts who endured and fought against racism to make life better for us. It is also for my late brother, Nicholas Mano, who encouraged me to love everyone equally. I see the book as a collective project for all those who continue to fight against absolute ethnicity and other forms of racism.
