Climate Change Communication in Africa

Emerging Trends and Practices

Tendai Chari, Allen Munoriyarwa

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9781040628065
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Global Warming & Climate Change
• Index: Biological Sciences

This groundbreaking collection explores the complex intersections of communication and climate change in Africa.

From legacy media's framing of climate narratives to the mobilising potential of digital media, the volume examines the multi-faceted ways in which climate change is mediated through different communication channels and how different media can be harnessed to amplify African voices on climate change. Drawing on a broad range of theoretical and methodological approaches, case studies cover all regions of the continent, providing a nuanced examination of how the media shape our understanding of and responses to climate change in Africa. Contributions scrutinise different facets of climate change communication, providing illuminating accounts on pitfalls in climate change communication, climate justice communication strategies, social media activism and climate change, and datafication of climate change. This is the first collection to comprehensively address climate change communication across the continent, featuring perspectives from all regions in Africa.

An essential contribution to the global conversation on climate change communication, the collection will appeal to researchers, academics, policymakers, communication activists, and students at all levels in the fields of environmental communication, media studies and journalism, as well as general readers keen to understand the complex dynamics of climate change in Africa.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Endorsements
• Half-Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Climate Change and Communication in Africa – Trends and Practices
• Part I Legacy Media and Climate Change Communication
• 1 ‘Covering’ the Changing Climate: Newspaper Reporting of Extreme Weather Events in Malawi
• 2 Pitfalls in Climate Change Communication: Insights from Nigeria and Algeria
• 3 An ideological frame analysis of mediated communications about Zimbabwe’s Kariba REDD+ carbon credit crisis
• 4 Climate change newsmaking practices in Botswana’s newsrooms: Journalists’ perspectives
• 5 Bringing Climate Change Back Down to Earth: Intersectional Climate Justice Communication Strategies in South Africa and Beyond
• 6 Climate Change Journalistic Lenses: An East African Perspective
• 7 Newspaper Framing of Climate Change Responsibilities in Nigeria
• Part II Visual Arts, Community Media, and Climate Change Communication
• 8 The role of visual arts in climate change communication in Africa
• 9 Strengthening Climate Action through Community Radio: A Case Study of South West Region, Cameroon
• 10 Leveraging Indigenous Media Strategies in Climate Change Communication in Ghana
• 11 Effective Communication on Climate Change in Africa: Global Noise, Local Expression
• Part III Digital Media and Climate Change
• 12 Artificial intelligence in climate change reporting: Emerging journalistic practices in African contexts
• 13 Datafication of climate change news in Zimbabwean Daily Newspapers
• 14 Beyond the Headlines: Examining Media and Internet Discourse on Climate Change in Mozambique
• 15 Podcasts, Sustainability, and Environmental Communication in the Middle East and North Africa
• Part IV Platforms and Climate Change Communication
• 16 From Platformisation to Infomediation: Trends and Imaginaries of Participation in #GreenNigeria
• 17 Communicating climate change on TikTok: Actors, cultures and practices in Africa
• 18 Social Media and Climate Change Activism: When Champions Meet Sceptics on X
• Index