Media, Culture, and Decolonization

Re-righting the Subaltern Histories of Ghana

Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

186 Seiten

2025
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-4164-2 (ISBN)

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Media, Culture and Decolonization: Re-righting the Subaltern Histories of Ghana invites us to look at media and culture from a decolonial perspective. Through Dagbaŋ epistemologies and knowledge systems, this book examines media by highlighting how African languages, cultures and traditions can shift how we think of knowledge. It is an offering to anyone curious about the relationship between culture, language and media. By focusing on African language media in Ghana such as film, television and radio, the book emphasizes the importance of espousing a decolonial politic and praxis in the process of co-creating knowledge with indigenous communities. It connects the struggles of global majority countries and demonstrates the ways in which (neo)colonialism and imperialism impede the work toward liberatory futures. This book demonstrates the potential that African language media hold as tools of cultural and epistemological decolonization.

WUNPINI FATIMATA MOHAMMED is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at Cornell University. She is coeditor of African Women in Digital Spaces: Redefining Social Movements on the Continent and in the Diaspora.

Introduction: Decolonizing African Media Studies
1          Bilchiinsi Philosophy, Media and Global Indigenous Epistemologies
2          Technology, Literacy and Media Development in Northern Ghana
3          Subalterns, Griots and Media
4          African Cinemas, Globalization and Resistance
5          Movie Distribution, Urban Architecture and the Newsification of Movies
6          Television for Social Change
Conclusion: Resisting Cultural Imperialism
Acknowledgments
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	16.12.2025
Zusatzinfo	11 color images
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-9788-4164-7 / 1978841647
ISBN-13	978-1-9788-4164-2 / 9781978841642
Zustand	Neuware