Journalism in Africa: Modernity, Africanity
By Francis B. Nyamnjoh (Originally published in Rhodes Journalism Review No. 25, November 2005, pages 3-6). The basic assumptions underpinning African Journalism in definition and practice, are not informed by the fact that ordinary Africans are busy Africanizing their modernity and modernizing their Africanity in ways often too complex for simplistic dichotomies to capture. [Full Text Article, pdf]