
Media, Culture, and Decolonization
Re-righting the Subaltern Histories of Ghana
- 185 pages
- English
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Media, Culture, and Decolonization
Re-righting the Subaltern Histories of Ghana
About this book
Media, Culture, and Decolonization: Re-righting the Subaltern Histories of Ghana invites us to look at media and culture from a decolonial perspective. Through Dagba? 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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Kundi Yelkpana
- Contents
- 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
- The Chapter Proverbs and Their Translations
- References
- Filmography
- Index
- About the Author