Media and Identity in Africa

Edited by Kimani Njogu and John F. M. Middleton

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June, 2009
Cloth, 320 pages, 32 b+w illustrations
ISBN: 978-0-7486-3522-1
Edinburgh University Press
$95.00

These studies incorporate both African and international perspectives. They demonstrate how media outlets perpetuate, question, or modify the unequal power relations between the north and the south of the continent. Focusing on east Africa, essays discuss the construction of old and new social entities as defined by class, gender, ethnicity, religion, and political and economic differences. Contributors illustrate how locals are increasingly controlling traditional and modern forms of media and countering the forces of globalization.

Related Subjects

• African Studies
• Media Studies

About the Author

Kimani Njogu is director of Twaweza communications and former associate professor of African Languages at Kenyatta University, Kenya. John F. M. Middleton is professor of anthropology and religious studies at Yale University

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