Africa's media, democracy, and the politics of belonging
An overview of the press and mass media in Africa today and their contribution to democratization.
Print Book, English, 2005
Zed Books : Distributed in the U.S.A. exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, London, New York, 2005
308 pages ; 23 cm
9781842775820, 9781842775837, 1842775820, 1842775839
55682667
Introduction : media, belonging and democratisation in Africa
1. In the name of democracy : the press and its predicaments
2. Media ethics, professionalism and training in Africa
3. Multiparty politics in Cameroon
4. The official media, belonging and democratisation
5. The legal framework and the private press
6. Professionalism and ethics in the private press in Cameroon
7. Creative appropriation of ICTs, rumour, press cartoons and politics
8. Liberal democracy : victim of a partisan and ethnic press
9. Communications policies in Africa : lessons from the West