Decolonisation in African political communication: reframing ontologies

Foreword: Political Communication for Upending Colonialism and its Legacies / Colin Chasi -- Reframing African Ontologies in the era of Decolonisation / Beschara Karam and Bruce Mutsvairo -- Decolonising Conflict Reporting: Media and Election Violence in Zimbabwe / Tendai Chari -- Conspicuous and Performative Blackness as Decolonial Political Branding Against the Myth of the Post-Colonial Society: A Case of the EFF / Rofhiwa Felicia Mukhudwana -- Zanele Muholi's Work as Political Communication and Decolonisation / Beschara Karam -- Documentary Film as Political Communication in Post-Apartheid South Africa / Pier-Paolo Frassinelli -- Remembering and Memorising: The Efficacy of Photography in Political Communication in Postcolonial Africa / George Nyabuga -- Killing with Kindness: Political Icons, Socio-Cultural Victims: Visual Coloniality of the Siddis of Karnataka, India / Sayan Dey -- On the Question of Decolonisation, Gender and Political Communication / Sally Osei-Appiah -- Freedom in the Jazz Imaginary: Twentieth Century Aesthetic Revolt / Salim Washington -- Empowering Communities through Liberalisation of Airwaves in Ghana / Africanus L. Diedong -- In the Realm of Uncertainty: Kenya's Ghetto Radio as Politicised Space / Wilson Ugangu -- Social Media as a Sphere of Political Disruption in Zimbabwe's Cyber Sphere: Reexamining #Thisflag Digital Campaign / Trust Matsilele and Bruce Mutsvairo -- Transformation, Fragmentation and Decolonisation: The Contested Role of the Media in Postcolonial South Africa / Ylva Rodny-Gumede -- The Voice of the Voiceless? Decoloniality and Online Radical Discourses in South Africa / Lorenzo Dalvit.

Foreword: Political Communication for Upending Colonialism and its Legacies / Colin Chasi -- Reframing African Ontologies in the era of Decolonisation / Beschara Karam and Bruce Mutsvairo -- Decolonising Conflict Reporting: Media and Election Violence in Zimbabwe / Tendai Chari -- Conspicuous and Performative Blackness as Decolonial Political Branding Against the Myth of the Post-Colonial Society: A Case of the EFF / Rofhiwa Felicia Mukhudwana -- Zanele Muholi's Work as Political Communication and Decolonisation / Beschara Karam -- Documentary Film as Political Communication in Post-Apartheid South Africa / Pier-Paolo Frassinelli -- Remembering and Memorising: The Efficacy of Photography in Political Communication in Postcolonial Africa / George Nyabuga -- "Killing with Kindness": Political Icons, Socio-Cultural Victims: Visual Coloniality of the Siddis of Karnataka, India / Sayan Dey -- On the Question of Decolonisation, Gender and Political Communication / Sally Osei-Appiah -- Freedom in the Jazz Imaginary: Twentieth Century Aesthetic Revolt / Salim Washington -- Empowering Communities through Liberalisation of Airwaves in Ghana / Africanus L. Diedong -- In the Realm of Uncertainty: Kenya's Ghetto Radio as Politicised Space / Wilson Ugangu -- Social Media as a Sphere of Political Disruption in Zimbabwe's Cyber Sphere: Reexamining #Thisflag Digital Campaign / Trust Matsilele and Bruce Mutsvairo -- Transformation, Fragmentation and Decolonisation: The Contested Role of the Media in Postcolonial South Africa / Ylva Rodny-Gumede -- The Voice of the Voiceless? Decoloniality and Online Radical Discourses in South Africa / Lorenzo Dalvit.

"This book uses decolonisation as a lens to interrogate political communication styles, performance, and practice in Africa and the diaspora. The book interrogates the theory and practice of political communication, using decolonial research methods to begin a process of self-reflexivity and the creation of a new approach to knowledge production about African political communication. In doing so, it explores political communication approaches that might until recently have been considered subversive or dissident: forms of political communication that served to challenge imposed western norms and to empower African citizens and their histories. Centring African scholarship, the book draws on case studies from across the continent, including Zimbabwe, South Africa, Nigeria and Ghana. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of politics, media and communication in Africa"--