Table of Contents

1. Decoloniality and the push for African media and communication studies: an introduction (Winston Mano and viola c. milton); 2. Afrokology of media and communication studies: theorising from the margins (Winston Mano and viola c. milton); 3. Frantz Fanon, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, and African media and communication studies (Pier Paolo Frassinelli); 4. Rethinking African strategic communication: towards a new violence (Colin Chasi); 5. Afrokology and organisational culture: why employees are not behaving as predicted (Elnerine WJ Gree); 6. To be or not to be: decolonizing African media/communications (Kehbuma Langmia); 7. Communicating the idea of South Africa in the age of decoloniality (Blessed Ngwenya); 8. Decolonising media and communication studies: an exploratory survey on global curricula transformation debates (Ylva Rodny-Gumede and Colin Chasi); 9. Africa on demand: the production and distribution of African narratives through podcasting (Rachel Lara van der Merwe); 10. The African novel and its global communicative potential: africa’s soft power (Mary-Jean Nleya); 11. Citizen journalism and conflict transformation: exploring netizens’ digitized shaping of political crises in Kenya (Toyin Ajao); 12. Ghetto ‘wall-standing’: counterhegemonic graffiti in Zimbabwe (Hugh Mangeya); 13. "Arab Spring" or Arab Winter: social media and the 21st-century slave trade in Libya (Ashley Lewis, Shamilla Amulega, and Kehbuma Langmia); 14. On community radio and African interest broadcasting: the case of Vukani Community Radio (VCR) (Siyasanga M. Tyali); 15. Not just a benevolent bystander: the corrosive role of private sector media on the sustainability of the South African Broadcasting Corporation (Kate Skinner); 16. Health communication in Africa (Elizabeth Lubinga and Karabo Sitto); 17. The politics of identity, trauma, memory and decolonisation in Neill Blomkamp’s Chappie (2015) (Beschara Karam); 18. Nollywood as decoloniality (Ikechukwu Obiaya); 19. Afrokology as a transdisciplinary approach to media and communication studies (viola c. milton and Winston Mano)

About the Author

Winston Mano is a Reader and a member of the University of Westminster’s top-rated Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI). He is also a Course Leader for the MA in Media and Development and the Founder/Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of African Media Studies. Mano is also a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.

viola c. milton is a Professor in the Department of Communication Science at the University of South Africa. She is also co-chair of the South African Communication Association's Communications Advocacy and Activism Interest Group and Editor-in-Chief of the oldest South African journal in Communication Studies, Communicatio: South African Journal for Communication Theory and Research.