This introductory essay argues for a decolonial approach that privileges qualitative methods
in ways that position African digital experiences as “epistemic sites” of knowledge …

media could play to encourage political debate, provide information for development, or
critique the very definitions of 'democracy'and 'development'. Drawing on diverse case …

Dissidents exist in every nation, always have, and perhaps always will–existing in that
precarious space between being patriots and enemies of the state. Social media, on the …

Researching African media audiences and users is urgent more than ever because of the
rapidly changing media landscape on the continent in the last few decades. In recent years …

This chapter constitutes a quarrel from the margins, an explication of Afrokology and an
introduction to its counter-hegemonic heuristic approach in media and communication …

This article analyses 12 cases of investigative journalism in Sub-Saharan Africa. The
reporters all claimed to have contributed to change processes by influencing government …

The history of communication research and theory has been dominated by epistemological,
ontological, and methodological perspectives from the global North, yet there is a lot that the …

COVID-19's arrival in Zimbabwe and South Africa in early 2020 caused disruptions to all
facets of life including education. It disrupted traditional notions of media studies' teaching …

Through comparative content analysis of online news reports (N= 420), we examined how
indigenous values and source citation practices (re) define journalistic objectivity away from …

By taking the 2014 Johannesburg edition of DISCOP, the largest film and television content
market in Africa, as its ethnographic starting point, this essay critically discusses the position …