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18 Political Ridicule: Medialized Notions of ‘Transparent Concealment’

  • Bantu Mwaura
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Media and Identity in Africa
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© 2022, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh

© 2022, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh

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
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