Even though sub-Saharan Africa is the region most affected by HIV/AIDS in the world, no new theories have been discovered, and questions about life and death are ignored. This book uses certain selected communication practices to offer the foundations of an African theory of communication, applicable to the crisis of HIV/AIDS.

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University of Johannesburg, South Africa

Colin Chasi

About the author

Colin Chasi is Senior Lecturer and Head of Department, Communication Studies, at the University of Johannesburg. He works on aspects of the philosophy of communication and health, with special interest in questions of African existence. He is author of Hard Words: On HIV/AIDS Communication.

Bibliographic Information

Book Title: HIV/AIDS Communication in South Africa
Book Subtitle: Are You Human?
Authors: Colin Chasi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137491299
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-49128-2Published: 07 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-49129-9Published: 07 November 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 89
Topics: Social Policy, African Culture, Development Studies, Medical Sociology, Infectious Diseases, Popular Science in Medicine and Health

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction

Are You Human?

Failure That Was Waiting to Happen

On Belief in the Communication of State Leaders

Just HIV/AIDS Communication

Towards Ubuntu as a Framework

Back Matter

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