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Africa's Media Image

by Beverly G. Hawk

Pages: 268

Contributors: Beverly G. Hawk

Publisher: Praeger Publishers

Place of Publication: Westport, CT

Publication Year: 1992

Subjects: Africa--In Mass Media--United States

Table of Contents

Title Page

Contents

I: The Media Debate

1: Introduction: Metaphors of African Coverage

Notes

2: American Media and African Culture

Notes

3: Committed in Africa: Reflections of a Correspondent

4: African Censorship and American Correspondents

Notes

II: Patterns in African Coverage

5: The Media and Mau Mau: Kenyan Nationalism and Colonial Propaganda

Notes

6: Dateline Algeria: U.S. Press Coverage of the Algerian War of Independence 1954-1962

Notes

7: Tribes and Prejudice: Coverage of the Nigerian Civil War

Notes

8: Reporting African Violence: Can America's Media Forget the Cold War?

Notes

9: Are We Really the World? Coverage of U.S. Food Aid in Africa, 1980-1989

Notes

10: African-American Press Coverage of Africa

Notes

11: New York Times Coverage of Africa, 1976-1990

Notes

III: The Southern African Story

12: Inkatha: Notions of the "Primitive" and "Tribal" in Reporting on South Africa

Notes

13: Beyond Black and White: an Overview of Nonracialism and the Image of Racial Polarization in South Africa

Note

14: Television News from the Frontline States

Notes

15: Savimbi's Image in the U.S. Media: a Case Study in Propaganda

Notes

16: The South African Story: a Correspondent's View

IV: Changing African Coverage

17: Dateline Africa: Journalists Assess Africa Coverage

Notes

18: Changing Policy: an Editorial Agenda

19: South Africa Now: the Challenge of the South African Story

Selected Bibliography

Index

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