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73156 results in African studies

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  • 7 - “That Is Lazy Journalism”

  • from Part II - Narrating an Atrocity
  • J. Siguru Wahutu, Yale University, Connecticut
  • Book:
    In the Shadow of the Global North
    Published online:
    13 November 2024
    Print publication:
    07 November 2024, pp 143-160

  • Summary

    Focusing on the field’s structure, this chapter shows that African journalists use the ethnic conflict frame to cover African atrocities. This frame is deployed by African journalists even though they and scholars argue that it is stereotypical and oversimplifies complex social processes. This chapter contextualizes its use within Africa while pushing against simplistic readings of its existence. It argues that this frame engages in the politics of who is African while relying on specific collective memories about political manipulation of identity, colonial subjugation, and the war on terror discourse.

  • 1 - Why Study African Media?

  • from Part I - Making Journalists
  • J. Siguru Wahutu, Yale University, Connecticut
  • Book:
    In the Shadow of the Global North
    Published online:
    13 November 2024
    Print publication:
    07 November 2024, pp 3-33

  • Summary

    There is a tendency to treat African journalism fields as insignificant to scholarship unless the scholarly focus is on “improving” or “modernizing” them. This chapter argues against this tendency by arguing that African journalism is engaged in knowledge production and all its attendant politics. It argues that by taking a conflict such as Darfur as a locus, scholars can excavate the multiple discursive struggles over questions such as the role of African journalism, the place of African news organizations in global narrative construction about Africa, and the politics of belonging in which African journalists debate what it means to be African. Relying on field theory, postcolonial theory, and the sociology of knowledge, this chapter argues for a de-Westernization of journalism studies while cogently locating the origins of field theory in Algeria; thus connecting it not just to the colonial project but specifically locating field theory with a larger discourse of postcoloniality.

  • Pluralizing archives for histories of extraction in Africa

  • Iva Peša, Tholithemba Lorenzo Ndaba, Jabulani Shaba, Jackson Tamunosaki Jack
  • Journal:
    Africa Bibliography, Research and Documentation / Volume 3 / November 2024
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    20 December 2024, pp. 14-33
    Print publication:
    November 2024
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  • With which sources can we write environmental histories of mining and oil drilling in Africa? Paradoxically, the pollution and environmental disruption caused by extractive industries are at once omnipresent and difficult to trace. In documentary evidence, multinational companies are hesitant to disclose the full extent of their polluting activities. In order to understand how people living around sites of extraction make sense of polluted rivers or suffocating smoke, we argue that archives need to be pluralized. State and company archives can fruitfully be paired with newspaper collections, oral history interviews, cultural production (songs, poems and literary works) and photography. Using examples from Johannesburg, Mazowe, the Central African Copperbelt and the Niger Delta, we map sources and methodologies that might be employed to grasp people’s lived experiences of environmental change in localities of resource extraction.

  • ABD volume 3 Cover and Front matter

  • Journal:
    Africa Bibliography, Research and Documentation / Volume 3 / November 2024
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    20 December 2024, pp. f1-f4
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    November 2024
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  • Obituary: Tom Lodge (1951–2023)

  • Charles Fonge
  • Journal:
    Africa Bibliography, Research and Documentation / Volume 3 / November 2024
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    20 December 2024, pp. 93-96
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    November 2024
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  • AFR volume 94 issue 4 Cover and Front matter

  • Journal:
    Africa / Volume 94 / Issue 4 / November 2024
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    18 December 2024, pp. f1-f4
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    November 2024
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  • Obituary: Ilse Sternberg (1931–2024)

  • Terry Barringer
  • Journal:
    Africa Bibliography, Research and Documentation / Volume 3 / November 2024
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    20 December 2024, pp. 97-98
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    November 2024
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