Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Contributors vii
4. Prologue ix
5. Part I: The Media, Community and Identity
6. 1 Orality, the Media and New Popular Cultures in Africa 1
7. 2 The Media in Social Development in Contemporary Africa 19
8. 3 Language and the Media in Africa: Between the Old Empire and the New 36
9. 4 Reflections on the Media in Africa: Strangers in a Mirror? 49
10. 5 Africa’s Media: Democracy and Belonging 62
11. 6 Representation of Africa in the Western Media: Challenges and Opportunities 76
12. 7 Media Consumerism and Cultural Transformation 84
13. 8 African Intellectuals in a Hostile Media Environment 94
14. Part II: The Media and Identity: The Global Media
15. 9 Publishing in Africa 103
16. 10 Pentecostalism and the Modern Audiovisual Media 114
17. 11 Rekindling Efficacy: Storytelling for Health 124
18. 12 The Media in Education 139
19. 13 Horn of Africa and Kenya Diaspora Websites as Alternative Media Sources 151
20. 14 Popular Dance Music and the Media 162
21. 15 Media Parenting and the Construction of Media Identities in Northern Nigerian Muslim Hausa Video Films 171
22. Part III: The Media and Identity: The Local Media
23. 16 ‘To Make Strange Things Possible’: The Photomontages of the Bakor Photo Studio in Lamu, Kenya 187
24. 17 Musical Images and Imaginations: Tanzania Music Videos 208
25. 18 Political Ridicule: Medialized Notions of ‘Transparent Concealment’ 218
26. 19 Names, Cloth and Identity: A Case from West Africa 226
27. 20 Museums in Africa 245
28. 21 Literary Prizes, Book Prizes and African Writing 258
29. 22 Innovating ‘AlterNative’ Identities: Nairobi Matatu Culture 267
30. 23 Bringing Change through Laughter: Cartooning in Kenya 275
31. 24 Demonic Tradition: Representations of Oathing in Newspaper Coverage of the 1997 Crisis in Coastal Kenya 287
32. Epilogue: In the Name of Similitude 308
33. Index 325