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Indigenous Language Media, Language Politics and Democracy in Africa

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  • © 2016

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Editors:
  1. Abiodun Salawu

    1. North-West University, South Africa

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  2. Monica B. Chibita

    1. Uganda Christian University, Uganda

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction: Language, Structure and Agency: Optimising Media Diversity in Africa Using the Indigenous Languages

    1. Introduction: Language, Structure and Agency: Optimising Media Diversity in Africa Using the Indigenous Languages

      • Monica B. Chibita, Abiodun Salawu
      Pages 1-9

  3. Indigenous Languages, Media and Democracy in Africa

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. Indigenous Language Media and Democracy in Africa

      • Abiodun Salawu
      Pages 13-27

    3. Indigenous Language Media and Freedom of Expression in Uganda

      • Monica B. Chibita
      Pages 28-56

  4. The Media, Language, Inclusion and Exclusion in Africa

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 57-57
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    2. IsiZulu Language and the Ilanga Newspaper as Catalysts for Participatory Democracy in South Africa

      • Thabisile Buthelezi
      Pages 59-86

    3. The Return of the Local: Community Radio as Dialogic and Participatory

      • Brilliant Mhlanga
      Pages 87-112

    4. “Englishisation” of the World Wide Web: Implications for Indigenous Languages in Nigeria

      • Chimaobi Dick Onwukwe, Uzoma Chukwuemeka Okugo
      Pages 113-120

    5. Indigenous Language Broadcasting in Ghana: Retrospect and Prospect

      • Ufuoma Akpojivi, Modestus Fosu
      Pages 121-150

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 235-246
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About this book

This book deals with the often-neglected link between indigenous languages, media and democracy in Africa. It recognizes that the media plays an amplifying role that is vital to modern-day expression, public participation and democracy but that without the agency to harness media potential, many Africans will be excluded from public discourse.

Editors and Affiliations

  • North-West University, South Africa

    Abiodun Salawu

  • Uganda Christian University, Uganda

    Monica B. Chibita

About the editors

Brilliant Mhlanga, University of Hertfordshire, UK Chima Dick Onwukwe, Abia State University, Nigeria Chukwuemeka Uzoma Okugo, Abia State University, Nigeria Ikhidero Solomon Ijeweimen, Researcher Itohan Mercy Idumwonyi, Rice University, USA John Lwanda, Physician and Social Historian Modestus Fosu, Ghana Institute of Journalism, Ghana Oloruntola Sunday, University of Lagos, Nigeria Philip Onguny, Saint Paul University, Canada Thabisile Buthelezi, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Ufuoma Akpojivi, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

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