[ecrea] Racism, Ethnicity and the Media in Africa: New Book

Racism, Ethnicity and the Media inAfrica: Mediating Conflict in the 
Twenty-First Century (Published June 2015 by I.B.Tauris& Co Ltd)
Edited by: Winston Mano
In today's Africa racism andethnicity have been implicated in serious 
conflicts - from Egypt to Mali toSouth Africa - that have cost lives and 
undermined efforts to achieve nationalcohesion and meaningful 
development. Racism, Ethnicity and the Media in Africasets about 
rethinking the role of media and communication in 
perpetuating,reinforcing and reining in racism, absolute ethnicity and 
other discriminationsacross Africa. It goes beyond the customary 
discussion of media racism andethnic stereotyping to critically address 
broader issues of identity, belongingand exclusion. Topics covered 
include racism in South African newspapers,pluralist media debates in 
Kenya, media discourses on same-sex relations inUganda and ethnicised 
news coverage in Nigerian newspapers.Find out more here: 
http://bit.ly/1Q0b3FO
TABLE OF CONTENTS Racism, Ethnicity and theMedia in Africa
Winston ManoMedia and Belonging in Africa: Reflections on 
ExclusionaryArticulation of Racial and Ethnic Identities in Cameroon and 
South Africa
Francis B. NyamnjohDiscourses of Race in the Afrikaans Press in South Africa
HermanWasserman‘Where the Streets Have No Names’: Mediating Name Change 
inPost-Apartheid South Africa
KristinSkare Orgeret‘It’s Our Paper!’ Ethnic Identity Politics and 
Indigenous LanguageNewspaper Readers in Zimbabwe: The Case of uMthunywa
HayesMawindi MabweazaraReporting Ethnic Minority Issues in Africa: A 
Study of NigerianNewspapers
Nkereuwem Udoakah
Regionalism and Ethnicity in theNigerian Press: An Analysis of the 
Coverage of Boko Haram and the Niger DeltaConflicts in the Guardian and 
Daily Trust
Muhammad Jameel Yusha’uProgramming for National Unity: The Paradox of 
Television inNigeria
OluyinkaEsanInfluencing the Information Domain: The United 
Nations’Information Intervention in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Jacob Udo-Udo Jacob‘Thus Saith theProphet’: The Media, Ethnic Myths and 
Electoral Politics in Kenya
Duncan OmangaA Critical View of the Kenyan Media System through the Lens 
of theJournalists
ElisabetHelanderThe Rise and Fall of the Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Bill 
inDomestic Press: A Study on the Importance of International Allies
CeciliaStrandSakawa – The Spirit of Cyberfraud: Analysis of a Rumour 
Complex inGhana
Felix RiedelBlack African Diasporic Cinemas: Identities and the 
Challenge ofComplexity
DanielaRicciRace and the Reproduction of Colonial Mythologies on Land: 
APost-colonial Reading of British Media Discourse on Zimbabwe
Wendy WillemsRepresentation of Otherness: Africans and Crime in the 
NorwegianMedia
MartinNkosi NdlelaIndexClick here to order: 
http://www.philip-wilson.co.uk/Books/Reference%20information%20%20interdisciplinary%20subjects/Interdisciplinary%20studies/Communication%20studies/Racism%20Ethnicity%20and%20the%20Media%20in%20Africa%20Mediating%20Conflict%20in%20the%20TwentyFirst%20Century.aspx?menuitem={DFF51E2F-C0BA-4928-ACC4-415188DCDEE8}
 Dr. Winston Mano
Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI)
Department of Journalism and Mass CommunicationSchool of Media, Arts and 
DesignUniversity of Westminster
Harrow Campus
Watford Road
Harrow, Middlesex, HA1 3TP, UK
E-mail: (manow /at/ wmin.ac.uk)

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