[Commlist] New Book: Regulating New Media in Africa: Politics, Law and Governance

Intellect is pleased to share that /Regulating New Media in Africa: 
Politics, Law and Governance 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/regulating-new-media-in-africa>/, edited 
by Vincent Obia, Sulayman Bah, Yemisi Akinbobola and Oliver Carter, is 
out in e-book and hardback!

A collection of research on digital media regulatory interventions 
across Africa, an area that has largely been overlooked in the 
literature. It considers a range of perspectives from scholars within 
and outside Africa on the subject, providing a compendium on digital 
media regulation on the continent. *Part of the BCMCR New Directions in 
Media and Cultural Research 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/bcmcr-new-directions-in-media-and-cultural-research> 
series.*


*_Table of Contents
_*
*List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Foreword* – /Oliver Carter/
*Introduction:* Regulating Digital Media in Africa – Politics, Law and 
Governance**– /Vincent Obia and Sulayman Bah/

*_Part 1: Regulatory Trends and the Research Landscape_*
*1.* Regulating Digital Technologies in Africa: Navigating a Shifting 
Tech Landscape – /Hayes Mawindi Mabwezara/
*2.* Human Rights, Freedom of Expression and Multi-Stakeholderism in the 
Governance of New Media Technologies in Africa – Interview with 
Guilherme Canela – /Vincent Obia/
*3.* Mapping A Research Agenda for Digital Media Regulation in Africa: A 
Systematic Analysis – /Vincent Obia
/
*_Part 2: State Policy Approaches and Regulatory Challenges_*
*4. *Cybersecurity Laws, Digital Media Spaces and Media Freedoms in 
Zambia – /Ndawana Youngson, Joanne Knowles, and Elastus Mambwe/
*5.* Morocco’s Approach to Digital Media Regulation: State Policy, Power 
Asymmetry, Platform Dialogue – Interview with Latifa Akharbach – /Yemisi 
Akinbobola/
*6. *Regime Change?: Digitalization, Media Convergence and the 
Constraints to Reforming Ghana’s Analogue-Era Regulatory System – 
/Kobina Bedu-Addo/
*7.* Broadcast Media Regulation and Democratic Transitions in Africa: A 
Nigerian and South African Case Study – /Yemisi Akinbobola, Vincent 
Obia, and Trust Matsilele/

*_Part 3: Digital Media Censorship: Frictions, Tensions, Reactions_*
*8. *Balancing Freedom with Responsibility or Simply Pandering to 
Political Whims: An Analysis of Kenya’s 2018 Computer Misuse and 
Cybercrimes Act – /Muthoni Esther King’ori and Maureen Syallow/
*9.* Interrogating Online Journalism Regulation and Censorship in Africa 
– Interview with Churchill Otieno –/ Sulayman Bah/
*10.* Senegal’s Approach to Digital Media Regulation: Limited Civil 
Society Consultation, State Control, and the Need for a Continental 
Approach to Governance – Interview with David Diaz-Jogeix – /Sulayman Bah/
*11. *Evasive Journalism: Circumventing the Regulation of Online 
Journalism in The Gambia – /Sulayman Bah
/
*Conclusion: *Afrokology and the Imperative to Decolonize Tech 
Regulation in Africa – /Winston Mano/
*Notes on Contributors/
/Index*

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