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Political Economy of Contemporary African Popular Culture

The Political Interplay

by Kealeboga Aiseng, Israel A. Fadipe, Phillip Mpofu, Rasheed Ademola Adebiyi, Abidemi Taofeq Adegoke, Oluwatomi Adeniji, Kwesi Aggrey, Umar Olansile Ajetunmobi0, Olutobi Akingbade1, Chioma Laura Arah2, Manfred Kofi Antwi Asuman3, IfeKristi Ayo-Obiremi4, Nureni Aremu Bakenne5, Thandeka Bukula6, Olayinka Abimbola Egbokhare7, Nontando Hadebe8, Emmanuel P. Idakwo9, Philip Osarobu Isanbor0, Anna-Marie Jansen Van Vuuren1, Precious Madula2, Takunda Maodza3, Arno Marx4, Adeola Obafemi Mobolaji5, Tshepang B. Molale6, Subeshini Moodley7, Protus Akwabi Murunga8, Isaac Imo-Ter Nyam9, Mwaona Nyirongo0, Shalom Obisesan1, Olanrewaju J. Ogundeyi2, Adeyoola Mercy Ojemola3, Osiebe4, Ibitayo S. Popoola5, Witness Roya6, Mopailo Thomas Thatelo7, Sakhiseni J. Yende8 ...

Series series Communication Perspectives in Popular Culture
Drawing on examples from across the continent, this volume examines socially significant aspects of contemporary African popular culture—including music cultures, fandoms, and community, mass, and digital media—to demonstrate how neoliberal politics and market forces shape the cultural landscape and vice versa. Contributors investigate the role that the media, politicians, and corporate interests ... Read more

$105.99 USD

Drawing on examples from across the continent, this volume examines socially significant aspects of contemporary African popular culture—including music cultures, fandoms, and community, mass, and digital media—to demonstrate how neoliberal politics and market forces shape the cultural landscape and vice versa. Contributors investigate the role that the media, politicians, and corporate interests
... Read more
Indigenous Language for Development Communication in the Global South

by Abiodun Salawu, Tshepang Bright Molale, Enrique Uribe-Jongbloed, Mohammad Sahid Ullah, Evaristus Adesina, Babatunde Adeyeye, Lanre Amodu0, Charity Ben-Enukora1, Olayinka A. Egbokhare2, Oluwaseun Idowu3, Kingsley Chukwuemeka Izuogu4, Shumani Eric Madima5, Steyn Khesani Madlome6, Fulufhelo Oscar Makananise7, Edgar Julius Malatji8, Tobias Marevesa9, Esther Mavengano0, Sandra Melendez-Labrador1, Óscar Julián Cuesta Moreno2, Phillip Mpofu3, Paul Nepapleh Nkamta4, Oscar Odiboh5, Dennis Ugochukwu Omeonu6, Toyosi Olugbenga Samson7, Viviane Schönbächler8, Thulani Tshabangu9, Emenike Ikedichi Ubani0, Job Allan Wefwafwa1, Lassané Yaméogo2, Darlynton Yartey3, M Ala Uddin4 ...

Series series Communication, Globalization, and Cultural Identity
Indigenous Language for Development Communication in the Global South brings together voices from the margins in underrepresented regions of the Global South, within the context of scholarship focusing on indigenous languages and development communication. Contributors present cases as a starting point for further research and discussions about indigenous language and development communication in ... Read more

$97.99 USD

Indigenous Language for Development Communication in the Global South brings together voices from the margins in underrepresented regions of the Global South, within the context of scholarship focusing on indigenous languages and development communication. Contributors present cases as a starting point for further research and discussions about indigenous language and development communication in
... Read more
Indigenous African Language Media

Practices and Processes

Edited by Phillip Mpofu, Israel Ayinla Fadipe, Thulani Tshabangu ...

Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
The book contributes to the sparse academic literature on African and minority language media research. It serves as a compendium of experiences, activities and case studies on the use of native language media. Chapters in this book make theoretical, methodical and empirical contributions about indigenous African language media that are affected by structural factors of politics, technology, ... Read more

$134.99 USD

The book contributes to the sparse academic literature on African and minority language media research. It serves as a compendium of experiences, activities and case studies on the use of native language media. Chapters in this book make theoretical, methodical and empirical contributions about indigenous African language media that are affected by structural factors of politics, technology,
... Read more
African Language Media

Edited by Phillip Mpofu, Israel A. Fadipe, Thulani Tshabangu ...

Series series Routledge African Media, Culture and Communication Studies
This book outlines how African language media is affected by politics, technology, culture, and the economy and how this media is creatively produced and appropriated by audiences across cultures and contexts.African language media can be considered as a tool for communication, socialization, and community that defines the various identities of indigenous people in Africa. This book shows how ... Read more

$57.99 USD

This book outlines how African language media is affected by politics, technology, culture, and the economy and how this media is creatively produced and appropriated by audiences across cultures and contexts.African language media can be considered as a tool for communication, socialization, and community that defines the various identities of indigenous people in Africa. This book shows how
... Read more

Performing Politics: Media Interviews, Debates and Press Conferences

by Geoffrey Craig ...

Series series Contemporary Political Communication
For successful political leaders, public speaking is only half the battle. A good politician must also be a competent performer. Whether facing critical questions in an interview, posturing in a leaders’ debate, or conversing on a daytime chat show, success is reliant upon a candidate’s ability to dramatically but authentically impart a strong individual identity.In this innovative analysis, ... Read more

$21.00 USD

For successful political leaders, public speaking is only half the battle. A good politician must also be a competent performer. Whether facing critical questions in an interview, posturing in a leaders’ debate, or conversing on a daytime chat show, success is reliant upon a candidate’s ability to dramatically but authentically impart a strong individual identity.In this innovative analysis,
... Read more
Everyday Media Culture in Africa

Audiences and Users

Edited by Wendy Willems, Winston Mano ...

Series series Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies
African audiences and users are rapidly gaining in importance and increasingly targeted by global media companies, social media platforms and mobile phone operators. This is the first edited volume that addresses the everyday lived experiences of Africans in their interaction with different kinds of media: old and new, state and private, elite and popular, global and national, material and virtual ... Read more

$62.99 USD

African audiences and users are rapidly gaining in importance and increasingly targeted by global media companies, social media platforms and mobile phone operators. This is the first edited volume that addresses the everyday lived experiences of Africans in their interaction with different kinds of media: old and new, state and private, elite and popular, global and national, material and virtual
... Read more
Researching Peacebuilding in Africa

Reflections on Theory, Fieldwork and Context

Edited by Ismail Rashid, Amy Niang ...

Series series Routledge Studies in Peace, Conflict and Security in Africa
This book examines the multifaceted nature of conflict and the importance of the socio-economic and political contexts of conflict and violence and shows how to support ongoing initiatives and programs to build sustainable peace on the African continent.Drawing on a range of conceptual framings in the study of peace and conflict, from gender perspectives to institutionalist to decolonial ... Read more

$60.99 USD

This book examines the multifaceted nature of conflict and the importance of the socio-economic and political contexts of conflict and violence and shows how to support ongoing initiatives and programs to build sustainable peace on the African continent.Drawing on a range of conceptual framings in the study of peace and conflict, from gender perspectives to institutionalist to decolonial
... Read more
Cooking Data

Culture and Politics in an African Research World

by Cal (Crystal) Biruk ...

Series series Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
In Cooking Data Cal Biruk offers an ethnographic account of research into the demographics of HIV and AIDS in Malawi to rethink the production of quantitative health data. While research practices are often understood within a clean/dirty binary, Biruk shows that data are never clean; rather, they are always “cooked” during their production and inevitably entangled with the lives of those who ... Read more

$25.99 USD

In Cooking Data Cal Biruk offers an ethnographic account of research into the demographics of HIV and AIDS in Malawi to rethink the production of quantitative health data. While research practices are often understood within a clean/dirty binary, Biruk shows that data are never clean; rather, they are always “cooked” during their production and inevitably entangled with the lives of those who
... Read more
Humanitarianism, Communications and Change

Edited by Simon Cottle, Glenda Cooper ...

Series Book 19 - Global Crises and the Media
Humanitarianism, Communications and Change is the first book to explore humanitarianism in today’s rapidly changing media and communications environment. Based on the latest academic thinking alongside a range of professional, expert and insider views, the book brings together some of the most authoritative voices in the field today. It examines how the fast-changing nature of communications ... Read more

$43.99 USD

Humanitarianism, Communications and Change is the first book to explore humanitarianism in today’s rapidly changing media and communications environment. Based on the latest academic thinking alongside a range of professional, expert and insider views, the book brings together some of the most authoritative voices in the field today. It examines how the fast-changing nature of communications
... Read more
Media and Development

by Richard Vokes ...

Series series Routledge Perspectives on Development
At the start of the 21st century, the relationship between media and development has never felt more important. Following a series of ‘media revolutions’ throughout the developing world – beginning with the advent of cheap transistor radio sets in the late-1960s, followed by the rapid expansion of satellite television networks in the 1990s, and the more recent explosion of mobile telephony, social ... Read more

$57.99 USD

At the start of the 21st century, the relationship between media and development has never felt more important. Following a series of ‘media revolutions’ throughout the developing world – beginning with the advent of cheap transistor radio sets in the late-1960s, followed by the rapid expansion of satellite television networks in the 1990s, and the more recent explosion of mobile telephony, social
... Read more
African Youth Cultures in a Globalized World

Challenges, Agency and Resistance

by Paul Ugor, Lord Mawuko-Yevugah ...

Series series Contemporary African Politics
All over the world, there is growing concern about the ramifications of globalization, late-modernity and general global social and economic restructuring on the lives and futures of young people. Bringing together a wide body of research to reflect on youth responses to social change in Africa, this volume shows that while young people in the region face extraordinary social challenges in their ... Read more

$70.99 USD

All over the world, there is growing concern about the ramifications of globalization, late-modernity and general global social and economic restructuring on the lives and futures of young people. Bringing together a wide body of research to reflect on youth responses to social change in Africa, this volume shows that while young people in the region face extraordinary social challenges in their
... Read more
Alternative and bottom-up peace indicators

Edited by Roger Mac Ginty ...

There is widespread dissatisfaction with the current suite of evaluation and monitoring tools available to peacebuilders and those responding to conflict. Yet, despite this dissatisfaction, there are few concrete moves to investigate alternative methods of gauging the success or failure of peace initiatives. This volume explores alternative methods of assessing peace. These methods tend to be ... Read more

$59.99 USD

There is widespread dissatisfaction with the current suite of evaluation and monitoring tools available to peacebuilders and those responding to conflict. Yet, despite this dissatisfaction, there are few concrete moves to investigate alternative methods of gauging the success or failure of peace initiatives. This volume explores alternative methods of assessing peace. These methods tend to be
... Read more

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