Communication, Culture, and Human Rights in Africa

Edited by Bala A. Musa, Jerry Komia Domatob

Publication date:

16 December 2010

Length of book:

294 pages

Publisher

University Press of America

Dimensions:

232x155mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9780761853077

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.

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

Communication, Culture, and Human Rights in Africa is a tour de force of insight, brilliance, and clarity. Musa and Domatob, like magicians, have pulled off an incredible demonstration of the most current thinking on the human rights situation on the African continent. This will be a major book. I am truly impressed.