Racism, Ethnicity and the Media in Africa

Winston Mano is Director of the Africa Media Centre, University of Westminster, UK. He is also Principal Editor of the Journal of African Media Studies. He is the author of African National Radio and Everyday Life: The Impact of Radio in the Digital Age (forthcoming from I.B. Tauris) and is editor of The Media and Zimbabwe (2005).

• CHAPTER 1: Introduction - On Racism, Ethnicity and the Media in Africa by Winston Mano CHAPTER 2: Racism, Ethnicity and the Media in Africa: Reflections Inspired byStudies of Xenophobia in Cameroon and South Africa by Francis B.Nyamnjoh, University of Cape Town, South Africa CHAPTER 3: Racism in South African Newspapers by Herman Wasserman, Rhodes University South Africa. CHAPTER 4 The road to renaming - what's in a name? The changing ofDurban's street names by Kristin Skare Orgeret, University Collegeof Oslo, Norway CHAPTER 5: Indigenous language Newspaper Readers in Zimbabwe byHayes Mabweazara, Edinburgh University CHAPTER 6: Reporting Ethnic Minority Issues in Africa: A Study of Nigerian NewspapersBy Nkereuwem Udoakah University of Uyo, Nigeria CHAPTER 7: Regionalism and ethnicity in the Nigerian press: An analysis of thecoverage of Boko Haram and Niger Delta conflicts in the Guardianand Daily Trust, Muhammad Jameel Yusha'u, Northumbria University,Newcastle upon Tyne CHAPTER 8: Programming for National Unity:  The Paradox ofTelevision in Nigeria by Oluyinka Esan, University of Winchester CHAPTER 9: Influencing the Information Domain: the UN'sInformation Intervention in the Democratic Republic of Congo, JacobUdo-Udo Jacob, Leeds University, UK CHAPTER 10: 'Thus saith theProphet': The Media, Ethnic Myths and Electoral Politics in Kenya,Duncan Omanga, Bayreuth International Graduate School of AfricanStudies, University of Bayreuth-Germany CHAPTER 11: Pluralist Media in Kenya: A critical view by ElisabetHelander, SOAS, University of LondonCHAPTER 12: State-sanctioned discrimination and media discourses onhomosexuality in Namibia by Cecilia Strand, Uppsala University,SwedenCHAPTER 13: Class-Struggles, Racism and Greedy in SakawaFilms in Ghana, Felix_RiedelCHAPTER 14: Diaspora, identities and the challenge of complexity inAfrica Film Daniela Ricci Université Jean Moulin-  Lyon3 (France) CHAPTER 15: Postcolonial nostalgia: Zimbabwe in the British press,Wendy Willems, Witswatersrand University, South Africa CHAPTER 16: The Representation of Africans in Norwegian Media,Martin Nkosi Ndlela, Hedmark University, Norway Bibliography Index