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Title Indigenous Language Media, Language Politics and Democracy in Africa / Abiodun Salawu, Monica B. Chibita
Published Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (264 pages : 2 illustrations
Contents Introduction : language, structure and agency : optimising media diversity in Africa using the Indigenous languages -- pt. I. Indigenous languages, media and democracy in Africa: 1. Indigenous languages, media and democracy in Africa / Abiodun Salawu. Indigenous language media and freedom of expression in Uganda / Monica B. Chibita -- pt. II. The media, language, inclusion and exclusion in Africa: 3. IsiZulu language and the Ilanga newspaper as catalysts for participatory democracy in South Africa / Thabisile Buthelezi. 4. The return of the local : community radio as dialogic and participatory / Brilliant Mhlanga. 5. "Englishisation" of the world wide web : implications for Indigenous languages in Nigeria / Chimaobi Dick Onwukwe and Uzoma Chukwuemeka Okugo. 6. Indigenous language broadcasting in Ghana : retrospect and prospect / Ufuoma Akpojivi and Modestus Fosu -- part III. The Indigenous language media in political and cultural expression in Africa: 7. Indigenous language radio in Kenya and the negotiation of inter-group relations during conflict processes / Philip Oburu. 8. Mobilising Nigerians towards a national population census : the role of Indigenous language media / Oloruntola Sunday. 9. The dynamics of language politics in religious expression in African Indigenous churches / Itohan Mercy Idumwonyi and Ijeweimen Solomon Ikhidero. 10. Poverty, prophets and politics : 'Marxist' discourses in Malawi music, 1994-2012 / John Lwanda
Notes Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL
Subject Mass media and language -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
Mass media -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- History -- 20th century
Local mass media -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- History -- 20th century
Mass media -- Political aspects -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
Indigenous peoples -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Communication
Society & social sciences.
Humanities.
Third World Development.
Regional Studies.
Indigenous peoples -- Communication
Local mass media
Mass media
Mass media and language
Mass media -- Political aspects
Sub-Saharan Africa
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Salawu, Abiodun, editor
Chibita, Monica B., editor
ISBN 9781137547316
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9781137547309
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