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Indigenous language media, language politics and democracy in Africa / edited by Abiodun Salawu, North-West University, South Africa, and Monica B. Chibita, Uganda Christian University, Uganda.

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This book deals with the often-neglected link between indigenous languages, media and democracy in Africa. It recognizes that the media plays an amplifying role that is vital to modern-day expression, public participation and democracy but that without the agency to harness media potential, many Afr...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors: Salawu, Abiodun (Editor), Chibita, Monica Balya (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Subjects:
Mass media and language > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Mass media > Africa, Sub-Saharan > History > 20th century.
Local mass media > Africa, Sub-Saharan > History > 20th century.
Mass media > Political aspects > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Indigenous peoples > Africa, Sub-Saharan > Communication.
Indigenous peoples > Communication.
Local mass media.
Mass media.
Mass media and language.
Mass media > Political aspects.
Sub-Saharan Africa.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : language, structure and agency : optimising media diversity in Africa using the indigenous languages
  • pt. I. Indigenous languages, media and democracy in Africa: 1. indigenous languages, media and democracy in Africa / Abiodun Salawu. Indigenous language media and freedom of expression in Uganda / Monica B. Chibita
  • pt. II. The media, language, inclusion and exclusion in Africa: 3. IsiZulu language and the Ilanga newspaper as catalysts for participatory democracy in South Africa / Thabisile Buthelezi. 4. The return of the local : community radio as dialogic and participatory / Brilliant Mhlanga. 5. "Englishisation" of the world wide web : implications for indigenous languages in Nigeria / Chimaobi Dick Onwukwe and Uzoma Chukwuemeka Okugo. 6. Indigenous language broadcasting in Ghana : retrospect and prospect / Ufuoma Akpojivi and Modestus Fosu
  • part III. The indigenous language media in political and cultural expression in Africa: 7. Indigenous language radio in Kenya and the negotiation of inter-group relations during conflict processes / Philip Oburu. 8. Mobilising Nigerians towards a national population census : the role of indigenous language media / Oloruntola Sunday. 9. The dynamics of language politics in religious expression in African indigenous churches / Itohan Mercy Idumwonyi and Ijeweimen Solomon Ikhidero. 10. Poverty, prophets and politics : 'Marxist' discourses in Malawi music, 1994-2012 / John Lwanda.

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