Disinformation Campaigns in Africa

Admire Mare is Full Professor and Head of the Department of Communication and Media Studies at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.Allen Munoriyarwa is Associate Professor of Journalism in the Department of Marketing, Public Relations, and Communication at Walter Sisulu University, South Africa.

• List of FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgments1. Conceptualizing and Historicizing Disinformation 2. The Critical Political Economy of Disinformation: Mapping the Actors, Interests, and Powers3. Electoral Disinformation in Selected African Countries 4. Health-related Disinformation: Pandemics, Conspiracies, and Infodemics 5. The Weaponization of Conspiracy Theories, Myths, and Religion6. Who Poisoned the Communal Well?: The Nexus Between Journalism and Disinformation 7. Responses to Disinformation: Tactics and Strategies8. Reimagining Disinformation FuturesReferencesIndexAbout the Authors

Disinformation Campaigns in Africa is a deeply nuanced and contextually grounded examination of how falsehoods take shape within the social, political, and economic enclaves of everyday African life. Mare and Munoriyarwa deftly unmask the complex entanglements through which disinformation is produced, circulated, and consumed — well beyond the usual Western analytical frames. By situating Africa’s disinformation ecologies within their lived, historical, and structural realities, this book compels us to rethink what we know about information disorder. A must-read for anyone seeking a textured, decolonial, and authentically African understanding of disinformation in all its messy and layered forms.