Communication, Culture, and Human Rights in Africa

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Communication, Culture, and Human Rights in Africa

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Communication, Culture, and Human Rights in Africa provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary analysis of the interface between human rights and civil society, the media, gender, education, religion, health communication, and political processes in sub-Saharan Africa. It weaves theory, history, policy, and case analyses into a holistic intellectual and cultural critique, while offering insightful practical solutions.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Acknowledgements
Chapter 2 Foreword
Chapter 3 Preface
Part 4 PART I: THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS
Chapter 5 1. Dialogic Communication Theory, African Worldview, and Human Rights
Chapter 6 2. Political Communication Theory and Human Rights: A Look at Nigeria's 2007 Elections
Part 7 PART II: MASS MEDIA
Chapter 8 3. The Media, Culture, and Human Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa
Chapter 9 4. Reconciling a Nation: Ghanian Journalists and the Reporting of Human Rights
Chapter 10 5. Media Ethics and Human Rights Education in Post-Conflict Africa
Chapter 11 6. Media and Freedom of Expression in Africa: A Comparative Analysis of Sierra Leone and Zambia
Part 12 PART III: POWER STRUCTURES
Chapter 13 7. Restoring a Nation's Human Rights Image: A Look at Nigeria's Political Transition Years
Chapter 14 8. Political Repression and Human Rights Abuses in Nigeria, 1999-2007
Part 15 PART IV: ALTERNATIVE MEDIA AND POPULAR CULTURE
Chapter 16 9. Media Activism, Youth Culture and Human Rights Campaigns for the MTV Generation
Chapter 17 10. "Ushahidi" and the Kenyan Blogosphere: Alternative Online Media in the 2007 Post-election Crisis in Kenya
Part 18 PART V: GENDER & HUMAN RIGHTS
Chapter 19 11. Gender and Cultural Violence in Africa: The Ordeal of the Kuteb Widoq
Chapter 20 12. Gender, Human Rights, and Leadership Transition in Pre-Islamic Hausaland
21 13. Culture, Communication, and the Right to Education of the Girl-Child in Africa
22 PART VI: HEALTH AND COMMUNICATION
Chapter 23 14. Culture, Health Communication and Human Rights in Africa
Chapter 24 15. Health Communication and HIV/AIDS Patients' Rights
Chapter 25 16. Communicating Patients' Rights in Kenyan Hospitals: An Analysis of Nurse-Client Interaction
26 Index
27 Contributors

Product details

Published Dec 16 2010
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 294
ISBN 9780761853077
Imprint University Press of America
Dimensions 232 x 155 mm
Series Communication, Society and Change in Africa
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Bala A. Musa

Anthology Editor

Jerry Komia Domatob

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