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This handbook attempts to fill the gap in empirical scholarship of media and communication research in Africa, from an Africanist perspective. The collection draws on expert knowledge of key media and communication scholars in Africa and the diaspora, offering a counter-narrative to existing Western and Eurocentric discourses of knowledge-production. As the decolonial turn takes centre stage across Africa, this collection further rethinks media and communication research in a post-colonial setting and provides empirical evidence as to why some of themethods conceptualised in Europe will not work in Africa. The result is a thorough appraisal of the current threats, challenges and opportunities facing the discipline on the continent.

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-70443-2

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If I were a Carpenter

Mutsvairo Bruce

3-17

Can the subaltern think?

Moyo Last; Mutsvairo Bruce

19-40

Decolonising the humanities

Chasi Colin

41-53

Decolonising communication studies

Chasi Colin

55-71

Post-coloniality and path dependency

Agbobli Christian; Frère Marie-Soleil

73-94

Researching and teaching African media studies from the "center"

Nothias Toussaint

95-109

"an-other"-centred film curricula

Karam Beschara

111-127

The four-leafed clover

Teer-Tomaselli Ruth

131-152

Taking the spy machine south

Duncan Jane

153-176

Bridging critical and administrative research paradigms in the interest of a social and politically engaged African research agenda

Rodny-Gumede Ylva

177-194

Comparative media studies in Africa

Salgado Susana

195-211

The social is political

Wasserman Herman

213-224

Mobile phone communication in the mobile margins of Africa

de Bruijn Mirjam; Brinkman Inge

225-241

"The devil is in the rumba text." commenting on digital depth

Pype Katrien

245-262

The technopolitics of communication technologies in Africa

Gagliardone Iginio

263-277

Contextualizing the culture of exclusion in the diasporic media activity

Ndlovu Everette

279-295

Law and innovation in the somali territories

Stremlau Nicole

297-309

Terrorists and social media messages

Wolumati Ogbondah Chris; Ogaba Agbese Pita

313-345

Gender in African media studies

Skare Orgeret Kristin

347-367

Mono-method research approach and scholar–policy disengagement in nigerian communication research

Ojebode Ayobami; Raphael Ojebuyi Babatunde; Adekunle Oladapo Oyewole; Joseph Oyedele Obasanjo

369-383

Ubuntu and the communication–power nexus

Tavernaro-Haidarian Leyla

385-399

Questioning the role of foreign aid in media system research

Gondwe Harris Suzanne Temwa

401-412

Rethinking media research in Africa

Bosch Tanja

413-425

This hard place and that hard terrain

Anthony Mhiripiri Nhamo

427-450

Bbc and African audience

Musa Muhammed

451-464