Disinformation Campaigns in Africa

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Actors, Consequences, and Responses

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

Av Admire Mare, Allen Munoriyarwa, South Africa) Mare, Admire (University of Johannesburg, South Africa) Munoriyarwa, Allen (Walter Sisulu University

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Centering disinformation campaigns in Africa, this book examines typologies of false and misleading information and assesses the devastating consequences of disinformation. Admire Mare and Allen Munoriyarwa cover the key actors, consequences of, and responses to combat disinformation campaigns that have been orchestrated by both domestic and foreign forces. This includes the spread of misinformation around elections, public health, migration, climate, and conflicts. This book provides historical analysis, examines the nexus between journalism and disinformation, and foregrounds conspiracy theories implicated in disinformation campaigns. The authors shed light on how these campaigns have been amplified in the digital age. It unpacks how everyday Africans’ dependence on both analogue and digital media platforms have contributed to the pollution of their communicative and information ecosystems. Using the revised propaganda model, weaponization, communicative ecologies, and decolonial lenses, Mare and Munoriyarwa analyze how informal and formal approaches have been leveraged to address the issue of disinformation in a multicultural, multilingual, and geographically-diverse context. This book highlights the interconnectedness of offline and online, domestic and foreign, as well as human and non-human typologies of disinformation.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-06-11
Mått152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor256
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781666945324

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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.