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| Title: | Journalism in Africa: modernity, Africanity |
| Author: | Nyamnjoh, Francis B. |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Periodical: | African journalism studies (ISSN 2374-3689) |
| Volume: | 36 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Pages: | 37-43 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Africa |
| Subjects: | journalism culture conflict |
| External link: | https://doi.org/10.1080/23743670.2015.1008128 |
| Abstract: | In this article the author argues that the precepts of journalism that apply currently in Africa are largely at variance with dominant ideas of personhood and agency, and by extension society, culture and democracy, shared by communities across the continent, as it assumes that there is a one-best-way of being and doing to which Africans must aspire and be converted in the name of modernity and civilisation. It places this problem at the heart of some of the professional and ethical dilemmas that haunt journalism in and on Africa. The way forward, the author argues, is in recognising the creative ways in which Africans merge their traditions with exogenous influences to create realities that are not reducible to either but enriched by both. [ASC Leiden abstract] |