Radio in Africa : Publics, Cultures, Communities.

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Introduction: The Soundscapes of Radio in Africa -- An 'ordinary' medium -- Language, contestation and the creation of new publics -- Radio and the emergence of multiple voices -- The dilemma of the new publics -- Subjectivities, cultures, communities -- Radio and the nation -- Endnotes -- Part 1: Radio, Popular Democracy and New Publics -- 1 Talk Radio and Politics in Ghana: Exploring Civic and (Un)Civil Discourse in the Public Sphere -- Talk radio and democratic citizenship -- Assessing political discourse: Tenor, tone and trends -- Conclusion -- Endnote -- 2 From Diffusion to Dialogic Space: FM Radio Stations in Kenya -- Introduction -- The context of FM radio in Kenya -- Evolving dialogic and democratic cultures: FM radio talk shows in Kenya -- The people's parliament: No more culture of silence -- Conclusion -- Endnotes -- 3 Contesting Mainstream Media Power: Mediating the Zimbabwe Crisis through Clandestine Radio -- Introduction -- The rebirth of clandestine radio -- Short Wave Radio Africa: Connecting to publics in a restricted environment -- Breaking down gates and contesting mainstream media power -- Government strategies to silence clandestine broadcasters -- Conclusion -- Endnotes -- 4 Equivocal Resonances: Islamic Revival and Female Radio 'Preachers' in Urban Mali -- Introduction -- The social and political locations of Islamic moral renewal -- Voice, mediation and charismatic authority -- Voice and (dis)embodied authority -- Conclusion -- Endnotes -- Part 2: The Cultures of Radio: Languages of the Everyday -- 5 What Is the Relationship between Hate Radio and Violence? Rethinking Rwanda's 'Radio Machete' -- Introduction -- Media and media effects in the Rwandan genocide -- Problems with the conventional wisdom.

Hypothesis testing -- An alternative model of media effects in the Rwandan genocide -- Endnotes -- 6 Why Radio Is Africa's Medium of Choice in the Global Age -- Introduction -- Radio Zimbabwe -- Methodology -- Death notices on air: Zviziviso Zverufu/Izaziso Zemfa -- Conclusion -- Endnotes -- 7 Bantustan Identity, Censorship and Subversion on Northern Sotho Radio under Apartheid, 1960s-80s -- Introduction -- Vernacular radio and Bantustan identity: Northern Sotho Radio, 1960-80s -- 'Motheeletši, theeletša ka tsebe tše tharo': Censorship, translation and subversion on Northern Sotho radio -- Conclusion -- Endnotes -- 8 South African Radio in a Saucepan -- Introduction -- From metropolitan relay to household saucepan -- Way down south -- Post-independence radio beyond the Limpopo -- Revolt of the ordinary -- South Africa: The post-apartheid radioscape -- Voices of change -- Conclusion: nation, community and market -- Endnotes -- 9 Radio Theatre: The Moral Play in the Historical Context of State Control and Censorship of Broadcasting in Kenya -- Introduction -- Radio Theatre: An historical glance -- A culture of censorship and control in Kenya -- Operating under the radar: Radio Theatre as a moral play -- The multiple meanings of the moral play: A question of interpretation -- Conclusion -- Endnotes -- 10 IsiZulu Radio Drama and the Modern Subject: Restless Identities in South Africa in the 1970s -- Introduction -- Space, voice and radio -- Voice, space and the domestic -- Women without a home: Abangane Ababi -- Control at all costs: uBhekifa -- Present incursions -- Endnotes -- Part 3: Radio and Community: Voices of Change -- 11 Radio Okapi - 100 per cent Congolese -- Political context -- Background to Radio Okapi -- Editorial independence -- Logistics -- The DRC media scene -- Radio Okapi: Nuts and bolts -- Funding, resources and sustainability.

Radio Okapi's legacy -- What next? -- Endnotes -- 12 Talk Radio, Democracy and the Public Sphere: 567MW in Cape Town -- Introduction -- Talk radio in South Africa -- Overview of the literature -- Talk radio and the public sphere -- Audience contributions to public-sphere debates -- Conclusions -- Endnotes -- 13 Radio and Religion: A Case of Difference and Diversity -- Introduction -- Stations and programmes: Religious communities? -- Radio as a form of community building -- Radio as transformer of religion -- Gender and shaping the 'voice of authority' -- Conclusion -- Endnotes -- 14 Voices from Without: The African National Congress, Its Radio, Its Allies and Exile, 1960-84 -- Introduction -- Radio Freedom -- Voice of Freedom -- Radio Freedom after the Soweto uprising -- Conclusion -- Endnotes -- 15 Airing the Politics of Nation: Radio in Angola, Past and Present -- A brief overview of radio in Angola, 1930-1975 -- Radio as a cultural technology: Sounding out the nation -- Tuning in in late colonial Angola -- Radio and counter-insurgency -- Radio after independence -- Radio in the present -- Endnotes -- 16 Radio in Zones of Conflict: Abnormal Measures for Abnormal Circumstances -- Case study - Somalia -- Background -- Greater Somali and the diaspora -- The Somali media scene -- Getting started -- Foot in the door -- What kind of radio does Somalia really need? -- So what have we learned? -- Endnotes -- 17 Multiple Publics, Multiple Languages: Radio and the Contestations of Broadcasting Language Policy in Uganda -- Introduction -- Language, complexities and citizens -- Language, radio and leaders -- The current media landscape -- A short history of Ugandan participation -- The language mix -- Re-examining language policy for radio -- From the horse's mouth: Interviews and insights -- Conclusions -- Endnotes -- References -- Index.

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