Media and Identity in Africa

What is the role of the media in Africa? How do they work? How do theyinteract with global media? How do they reflect and express local culture?Incorporating both African and international perspectives, Media and Identity inAfrica demonstrates how media outlets are used to perpetuate, question, or modifythe unequal power relations between Africa and the rest of the world. Discussionsabout the construction of old and new social entities which are defined by class, gender, ethnicity, political and economic differences, wealth, poverty, culturalbehavior, language, and religion dominate these new assessments of communicationsmedia in Africa. This volume addresses the tensions between the global and the localthat have inspired creative control and use of traditional and modern forms ofmedia.