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[Commlist] new book: Communication Rights in Africa: Emerging Discourses and Perspectives

Mon Oct 09 10:37:26 GMT 2023




Tendai Chari (University of Venda, South Africa) and Ufuoma Akpojivi (Policy, Research and Learning Lead at Advocates for International Development (A4ID, United Kingdom) are pleased to announce the publication of their co-edited book: Communication Rights in Africa: Emerging Discourses and Perspectives (Routledge).

A description of the book is found below:

Description

This ground-breaking volume examines enduring and emerging discourses around communication rights in Africa, arguing that they should be considered an integral component of the human rights discourse in Africa.

Drawing on a broad range of case studies across the continent, the volume considers what constitutes communication rights in Africa, who should protect them, against whom, and how communication rights relate to broader human rights. While the case studies highlight the variation in communicative rights experiences between countries, they also coalesce around common tropes and practices for the implementation and expression of communication rights. Deploying a variety of innovative theoretical and methodological approaches, the chapters scrutinise different facets of communication rights in the context of both offline and digital communication realities. The contributions provide illuminating accounts on language rights, digital exclusion, digital activism, citizen journalism, media regulation and censorship, protection of intellectual property rights, politics of mobile data, and politicisation of social media.

This is the first collection to consider communication in Africa using a rights-based lens. The book will appeal to researchers, academics, communication activists, and media practitioners at all levels in the fields of media studies, journalism, human rights, political science, public policy, as well as general readers who are keen to know about the status of communication rights in Africa.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Communication Rights in Africa: Theoretical and Practical Considerations

/Tendai Chari and Ufuoma Akpojivi/

*Part I: Cultural and Minority Rights*

*Chapter I: *Language-Cultural Barrier in Ubang Community: A Critical Assessment of the Communication Rights of Women and the Girl-Child

/Chike Mgbeadichie/

*Chapter 2:* Silicon Savannah or Digitising Marginalisation? A Reflection of Kenya’s Government Digitization Policies, Strategies and Projects

/Job Mwaura/

*Chapter 3: *Please do not call it human right: a Southern Epistemological perspective on the digital inclusion of people with disabilities in South Africa

/Lorenzo Dalvit/

*Chapter 4: *The Interdependence of Communication, Political, and Socio-Economic Rights: Examining the Lived Experiences of Digitally Marginalised Netizens Before and During the COVID-19 Lockdown in Lagos State, Nigeria.

/Olutobi Akingbade/

*Part II: Digital Citizenship*

*Chapter 5://*/Cabo Delgado Também é Moçambique/: The Paths of Youth Digital Activism in a Restrictive Context

/Dércio Tsandzana/

*Chapter 6: *Citizen journalism and the entrenchment of communication rights in Zimbabwe

/Ernest Mudzengi and Wellington Gadzikwa/

*Part III: Freedom, Censorship and Intellectual Property Rights*

*Chapter 7: ‘*The right to tell my story as I please’: Regulation and self-censorship in the Nigerian film industry

/Ikechukwu Obiaya/

*Chapter 8: *A critical review of intellectual property rights: The case of Nigeria

/Aifuwa Edosomwan/

*Chapter 9: *Internet shutdowns in semi-authoritarian regimes: The case of Cameroon

/Peter Tiako//Ngangum/

*Chapter 10: *Fake news//versus Freedom of expression: Legislating media trademarks infringements on Social Media Platforms in Kenya and South Africa

/Brian Hungwe/

*Part IV: Politics of Digital Infrastructures*

*Chapter 11: *Politics of Digital Infrastructures in the Global South: The Case of #DataMustFall Campaign in South Africa

/Tendai Chari/

*Chapter 12: *Silence and Silent the SóróSoké Generation: The Politicisation of Social Media in Nigeria

/Ufuoma Akpojivi/

About the Editors


      Biography

*Tendai Chari* is an Associate Professor of Media Studies and a National Research Foundation (NRF) C3 Rated Researcher at the University of Venda, South Africa. He holds a PhD in media studies from the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. He is the co-editor of Global Pandemics and Media Ethics: Issues and Perspectives (Routledge, 2022, co-edited with Professor Martin N. Ndlela), African Football, Identity Politics and Global Media Narratives: The Legacy of FIFA 2010 World Cup (2014 Palgrave Macmillan; co-edited with Professor Nhamo A. Mhiripiri); Media Law, Ethics, and Policy in the Digital Age (IGI Global Publishing, 2017; also with Professor Nhamo A. Mhiripiri); and Military , Politics and Democratisation in Southern Africa: The Quest for Political Transition (with Professor P. Dzimiri). He is a recipient of several grants and fellowships, which include the African Peace Building Network Fellowship (2017), the African Peacebuilding Book Publishing Manuscript grant (2018), the African Humanities Program (AHP) of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Post-Doctoral Fellowship (2022).

*Ufuoma Akpojivi (PhD)* is Policy, Research and Learning Lead at Advocates for International Development (A4ID), United Kingdom. Before this, he was an associate professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa and a visiting professor at the School of Media and Communication, Pan-Atlantic University, Nigeria. He holds a PhD and MA in communications studies from the University of Leeds, United Kingdom. His research interests cut across media policy, democracy, citizenship, new media technologies, and political communications, and he has widely published on these issues. He is a National Research Foundation (NRF) South Africa, C2 Rated Researcher and a recipient of numerous teaching and learning awards such as the Vice Chancellor Individual Teaching and Learning Award (2017), Faculty of Humanities Individual Teaching and Learning Award (2017), Vice Chancellor Team Teaching and Learning Award (2016), and Faculty of Humanities Team Teaching and Learning Award (2016). He is the author of Media Reforms and Democratization in Emerging Democracies of Sub-Saharan Africa (Palgrave 2018) and Social Movements, and Digital Activism in Africa (Palgrave, 2023).

Further details on the book are found here:

https://www.routledge.com/Communication-Rights-in-Africa-Emerging-Discourses-and-Perspectives/Chari-Akpojivi/p/book/9781032482835 <https://www.routledge.com/Communication-Rights-in-Africa-Emerging-Discourses-and-Perspectives/Chari-Akpojivi/p/book/9781032482835>

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