Human Rights and African Airwaves : Mediating Equality on the Chichewa Radio.
Title:
Human Rights and African Airwaves : Mediating Equality on the Chichewa Radio.
Author:
Englund, Harri.
ISBN:
9780253005434
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (308 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. Human Rights, African Alternatives -- 1 Rights and Wrongs on the Radio -- 2 Obligations to Dogs -- 3 Against the Occult -- Part 2. The Ethos of Equality -- 4 A Nameless Genre -- 5 Inequality Is Old News -- 6 Stories Become Persons -- Part 3. The Aesthetic of Claims -- 7 Cries and Whispers -- 8 Christian Critics -- 9 Beyond the Parity Principle -- Appendix 1. Presidential News -- Appendix 2. Graveyard Visit -- Appendix 3. Drunken Children -- Appendix 4. Giant Rat -- Appendix 5. Reclaiming Virginity -- Appendix 6. The Truth about Porridge -- Appendix 7. "Makiyolobasi Must Stop Bewitching at Night" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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