Human Rights and African Airwaves: Mediating Equality on the Chichewa Radio - Softcover

Englund, Harri

 
9780253223470: Human Rights and African Airwaves: Mediating Equality on the Chichewa Radio
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ISBN 10: 0253223474 ISBN 13: 9780253223470
Publisher: Indiana University Press, 2011

Synopsis

Human Rights and African Airwaves focuses on Nkhani Zam'maboma, a popular Chichewa news bulletin broadcast on Malawi's public radio. The program often takes authorities to task and questions much of the human rights rhetoric that comes from international organizations. Highlighting obligation and mutual dependence, the program expresses, in popular idioms and local narrative forms, grievances and injustices that are closest to Malawi's impoverished public. Harri Englund reveals broadcasters' everyday struggles with state-sponsored biases and a listening public with strong views and a critical ear. This fresh look at African-language media shows how Africans effectively confront inequality, exploitation, and poverty.

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About the Author

Harri Englund is Reader in Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. He is author of Prisoners of Freedom: Human Rights and the African Poor, winner of the 2006 Amaury Talbot Prize of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

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Publisher
Indiana University Press
Publication date
2011
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0253223474
ISBN 13 
9780253223470
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
308

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