Indigenous Language Media, Language Politics and Democracy in Africa.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Language, Structure and Agency: Optimising Media Diversity in Africa Using the Indigenous Languages -- Part I: Indigenous Languages, Media and Democracy in Africa -- 1 Indigenous Language Media and Democracy in Africa -- 2 Indigenous Language Media and Freedom of Expression in Uganda -- Part II: The Media, Language, Inclusion and Exclusion in Africa -- 3 IsiZulu Language and the Ilanga Newspaper as Catalysts for Participatory Democracy in South Africa -- 4 The Return of the Local: Community Radio as Dialogic and Participatory -- 5 "Englishisation" of the World Wide Web: Implications for Indigenous Languages in Nigeria -- 6 Indigenous Language Broadcasting in Ghana: Retrospect and Prospect -- Part III: The Indigenous Language Media in Political and Cultural Expression in Africa -- 7 Indigenous Language Radio in Kenya and the Negotiation of Inter-Group Relations during Conflict Processes -- 8 Mobilising Nigerians towards a National Population Census: The Role of Indigenous Language Media -- 9 The Dynamics of Language Politics in Religious Expression in African Indigenous Churches -- 10 Poverty, Prophets and Politics: 'Marxist' Discourses in Malawi Music, 1994-2012 -- Index.

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