This handbook comprises fresh and incisive research focusing on African media, culture and
communication. The chapters from a cross-section of scholars dissect the forces shaping the
field within a changing African context. It adds critical corpora of African scholarship and
theory that places the everyday worlds, needs and uses of Africans first.
The book goes beyond critiques of the marginality of African approaches in media and
communication studies to offer scholars the theoretical and empirical toolkit needed to start
building critical corpora of African scholarship and theory that places the everyday worlds,
needs and uses of Africans first. Decoloniality demands new epistemological interventions in
African media, culture and communication, and this book is an important interlocutor in this
space. In a globally interconnected world, changing patterns of authority and power pose new
challenges to the ways in which media institutions are constituted and managed, as well as how
communication and media policy is negotiated and the manner in which citizens engage with
increasing media opportunities. The handbook focuses on the interrelationships of the local
and the global and the concomitant consequences for media practice, education and citizen
engagement in today’s Africa. Altogether, the book foregrounds convivial epistemologies
relevant for locating African media and communication in the pluriverse.
This handbook is an essential read for critical media, communications, cultural studies and
journalism scholars.