Decolonising Political Communication in Africa

Beschara Karam is an Associate Professor at the University of South Africa. Bruce Mutsvairo is a Professor of Journalism at Auburn University, USA.

• 1. Reframing African Ontologies in the Era of Decolonisation Part 1: Decolonial Research 2. Decolonising Conflict Reporting: Media and Election Violence in Zimbabwe 3. Conspicuous and Performative Blackness as Decolonial Political Branding Against the Myth of the Post-Colonial Society Part 2: Film and Photography as Activism: Decolonisation and Performance 4. Zanele Muholi’s Work as Political Communication and Decolonisation 5.Documentary Film as Political Communication in Post-Apartheid South Africa 6. Remembering and Memorising: The Efficacy of Photography in Political Communication in Postcolonial Africa 7. "Killing with Kindness": Political Icons, Socio-Cultural Victims: Visual Coloniality of the Siddis of Karnataka, India 8. On the Question of Decolonisation, Gender and Political Communication Part 3: Music, Radio and Social Media as Politicised "Spaces" Chapter 9: Freedom in the Jazz Imaginary: Twentieth Century Aesthetic Revolt 10. Empowering Communities through Liberalisation of Airwaves in Ghana 11. In the Realm of Uncertainty: Kenya’s Ghetto Radio as Politicised Space 12. Social Media as a Sphere of Political Disruption in Zimbabwe’s Cyber Sphere Part 4: The Media, The Digital Public Sphere, and Decoloniality 13. Transformation, Fragmentation and Decolonisation: The Contested Role of the Media in Postcolonial South Africa 14. The Voice of the Voiceless? Decoloniality and Online Radical Discourses in South Africa