Media and Identity in Africa (International African Seminars)

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.