• Language: English
  • Established Year: 2009
  • Published Articles: 158
Journal of African Media Studies

Executive Editor : Winston Mano
Publication Frequency : Thrice a year
Publisher : Intellect Books
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The Journal of African Media Studies (JAMS) is an interdisciplinary journal that provides a forum for debate on the historical and contemporary aspects of media and communication in Africa. All articles are double-blind peer-reviewed in order to maintain the highest standards of scholastic integrity.
    • Vol-1 No-1 (2009)
    • - Positioning African Media Studies
  • - Between Journalism 'Universals' and Cultural Particulars: Challenges Facing The Development of A...
    • Vol-1 No-1 (2008)
    • - Looking Backward, Looking Forward: African Media Studies and The Question of Power
  • - Repositioning African Media Studies
  • - African Media Research In The Era of Globalization
  • - Missing Links: African Media Studies and Feminist Concerns
  • - The Growth and Development of African Media Studies: Perspectives From Nigeria
  • - Fata Morgana: Mirage In The Desert - A Sequence of Images
  • - ‘We Need To Open Up The Country’: Development and The Christian Key Scenario In The Social Space of...
  • - Popular Music and Political Change In CôTe D’Ivoire: The Divergent Dynamics of Zouglou and Reggae
  • - Music Advocacy, The Media and The Malawi Political Public Sphere, 1958–2007
  • - The Politics of Corruption and The Media In Africa
    • Vol-1 No-2 (2009)
    • - South African Media In Transition
  • - The Democratic Functions and Dysfunctions of Political Talk Radio: The Case of Uganda
  • - ‘Think Imperially’: The Private Press Mediation of State Policy and The Global Economy Within Colonial and...
  • - Picturing Zimbabwe'S 2008 Elections
  • - Regulatory Independence and The Public Interest: The Case of South Africa'S Icasa
  • - The Politics of Broadcasting, Language Policy and Democracy In Uganda
  • - Yabis Music: An Instrument of Social Change In Nigeria
    • Vol-1 No-3 (2009)
    • - China In The African Mediascape: A Critical Injection
  • - Xinhua News Agency In Africa
  • - The Lion and The Dragon: African Experiences In China
  • - How The North Pictures The Neighbouring South: Portuguese Press Coverage of The Sahrawi Conflict
  • - Gendered Roles, Images and Behavioural Patterns In The Soap Opera Generations
  • - Regional Identity and The Politics of Belonging In The Consumption of Zimbabwe'S Vernacular Tabloid...
  • - Muslim Minorities and Media Access In A Predominantly Christian City: The Case of Port Harcourt, Nigeria
  • - Films Out of Africa
    • Vol-2 No-1 (2010)
    • - Negotiating Identities: Representations of Childhood In Senegalese Cinema
  • - Questions of Source In African Cinema: The Heritage of The Griot In Dani Kouyaté'S Films
  • - Bizet In Khayelitsha: U-Carmen Ekhayelitsha As Audio-Visual Transculturation
  • - Animation As Socio-Political Commentary: An Analysis of The Animated Films of Congolese Director Jean Michel...
  • - Alternative African Cinemas: A Case Study of Rwanda
  • - ‘They Stole The Show!’: Indian Films In Coastal Tanzania, 1950S–1980S
  • - In Search of SembèNe
    • Vol-2 No-2 (2010)
    • - The African National Congress'S Radio Freedom and Its Audiences In Apartheid South Africa, 19631991
  • - Sw Radio Africa and The Challenges of Operating A Zimbabwean Exile Radio Station In London
  • - Measuring The Democratic Quality of Radio News: Experiences From Liberia
  • - Healing The Wounds of The Northern Uganda Insurgency
  • - The Production of Stardom and The Survival Dynamics of The Zimbabwean Music Industry In The Post-2000 Crisis...
  • - Inserting Voice: Foreign Language Film Translation As A Local Phenomenon In Tanzania
  • - Public Journalism In Africa: Trends, Opportunities and Rationale
    • Vol-2 No-3 (2010)
    • - Mobile Interconnections: Reinterpreting Distance, Relating and Difference In The Cameroonian Grassfields
  • - Rethinking Rugby and The Rainbow Nation
  • - The Road To Renaming What'S In A Name? The Changing of Durban'S Street Names and Its Coverage In The...
  • - Nollywood On The Internet: A Preliminary Analysis of An Online Nigerian Video-Film Audience
  • - Can The Media In Africa Shape Africa'S Political Future?
  • - Regional Parallelism and The Reporting of Corruption In The Nigerian Press
    • Vol-3 No-1 (2011)
    • - Global Flows, Media and Developing Democracies: The Ghanaian Case
  • - Representations of The Third World In Ngo Advertising: Practicalities, Colonial Discourse and Western...
  • - The Myth of Press Freedom In Botswana: From Sir Seretse Khama To Ian Khama
  • - State-Sanctioned Discrimination and Media Discourses On Homosexuality In Namibia
  • - Africa 50: Photographs By Tom Pointon
  • - Communication and Collective Memory: The Plight of Oral Traditions In CôTe D'Ivoire
  • - Kenya'S Indigenous Radio Stations and Their Use of Metaphors In The 2007 Election Violence
    • Vol-3 No-2 (2011)
    • - Contemporary African Mediascapes: New Actors, Genres and Communication Spaces
  • - ‘Paroles De Vie’: Christian Radio Producers In The Republic of Benin
  • - Business of The Spirit: Ghanaian Broadcast Media and The Commercial Exploitation of Pentecostalism
  • - Peace-Making, Power Configurations and Media Practices In Northern Uganda:A Case Study of Mega Fm
  • - Ghanaian Entertainment Brokers: Urban Change, and Afro-Cosmopolitanism, With Neo-Liberal Reform
  • - Fespaco In A Time of Nollywood: The Politics of The ‘Video’ Film At Africa’S Oldest Festival
  • - Revisiting The ‘Leapfrog’ Debate In Light of Current Trends of Mobile Phone Internet Usage In The Greater...
  • - Young People, Computers and The Internet In Niger
    • Vol-3 No-3 (2011)
    • - Student Civic Engagement With Humanitarian Disasters: Collaborative Cross-National Research On Darfur Reporting
  • - Future Prospects of The Print Newspaper In Zimbabwe
  • - Collective Action: Subverting The Knowledge Industry
  • - ‘Hitting The Glass Ceiling’ – Gender and Media Management In Sub-Saharan Africa
    • Vol-4 No-1 (2012)
    • - Media and The War On Terror In Africa
  • - Global Media and The War On Terror: Why Some Wars Matter
  • - Terrorism and News of Africa Post-9/11 Coverage In The New York Times
  • - The ‘War On Terror’ Frame and Washington Post’S Linking of The Sierra Leone Civil War To 9/11 and...
  • - Nigeria As A Country of Interest In Terrorism’: Newspaper Framing of Farouk Abdulmutallab, The Underwear...
  • - Agrey Area: The Nigerien Sahel In The French Media
  • - Editorial Cartoons and The War On Terror In Kenya’S Print Media
  • - The Media, Politics and Boko Blitz
  • - Socio-Economic Incentives, New Media and The Boko Haram Campaign of Violence In Northern Nigeria
    • Vol-4 No-2 (2012)
    • - Intellectual Poverty and Theory Building In African Mass Communication Research
    • Vol-4 No-2 (0000)
    • - New Perspectives On Strengthening Science Journalism In Developing Countries: Approach and First Results of The...
    • Vol-4 No-2 (2012)
    • - Patterns of News Media Consumption Among Young People In Libya
  • - Community Radio Regulation and Its Challenges In Ghana
  • - Sociologies of Voice and Language – Radio Broadcasting and The Ethnic Imperative
  • - The Printed Press’S Representations of The 2005–2007Chikungunya Epidemic In RéUnion:Political Polemics and...
  • - The Use of Jokes and Mobile Telephony To Create Counter-Publics In Zimbabwe
    • Vol-4 No-3 (2012)
    • - Tabloid Tv In Zambia: A Reception Study of Lusaka Viewers of Muvi Tv News
  • - Zimbabwean Diaspora Politics and The Power of Laughter: Humour As A Tool For Political Communication, Criticism...
  • - Framing The Cape Town World Cup Stadium In The Media: The Politics of Identity and Sports In South Africa
  • - Conference Report
  • - Towards An Epistemology of Management and Economics In The Zimbabwean Music Industry
  • - The Nigerian Press and The Challenge of Private Newspaper Ownership: A Study of The Nigerian Tribune,...
  • - The Media and Democratic Consolidation In Nigeria: An Overview of Government–Media Relations, 1999–2009
    • Vol-5 No-1 (2012)
    • - Using Narrative Communication In A Mass-Produced Youth Magazine As An HIV Prevention Intervention
    • Vol-5 No-1 (2013)
    • - Orientalism In Online News: Bbc Stories of Somali Piracy
  • - Upstairs Downstairs: Communication Contradictions Around Two African Refugee Camps
  • - The Media’S Reporting of War Crimes Trials and Its Impact On Post-Conflict Democracy In Sierra Leone and...
  • - Cyberactivism In The Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions: Potentials, Limitations, Overlaps and Divergences
  • - Communication and Media Studies In South Africa: Observations, Impressions and Remarks
    • Vol-5 No-2 (2013)
    • - African Media and Politics
  • - Youth, Facebook and Politics In South Africa
  • - Facebook and Public Debate: An Informal Learning Tool For The Youth
  • - Prepaid Social Media and Mobile Discourse In South Africa
  • - Facebook, The Public Sphere and Political Youth Leagues In South Africa
  • - CôTe D’Ivoire 2010–2011 Post-Electoral Crisis: An Approach From The Media
  • - Negative Political Advertising and The Imperative of Broadcast Regulation In Ghana
  • - Selective Believability: A Perspective On Africans’ Interactions With Global Media
  • - Will The Social Media Lenses Be The Framework For Sustainable Development In Rural Nigeria?
    • Vol-5 No-3 (2013)
    • - Taking Nigeria To The Movies: The Innovative Regulatory Role of The National Film and Video Censors Board
  • - The Rise and Fall of A Contentious Social Policy Option – Narratives Around The Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality...
  • - Ethical Dilemma Revisited: Pbo Newspapers and The Professional Elbowroom of The Nigerian Journalist
  • - Climate Change In Ugandan Media: A ‘Global Warming’ of Journalism Ethics
  • - The Impacts of An Entertainment-Education Radio Serial Drama In Botswana On Outcomes Related To HIV Prevention...
    • Vol-6 No-1 (2014)
    • - Stuart Hall’S Question For Media Studies In Africa
  • - A Clash Between Journalistic and Capitalist Values? How Advertisers Meddle In Journalists’ Decisions At The...
  • - The Maestro Film Project
  • - Whose Event? official Versus Journalistic Framing of The Fifth Forum On China Africa Cooperation (FOCAC V)
  • - Nigerian Newspapers’ Coverage of The Effect of Boko Haram Activities On The Environment
  • - Performing Patriotic Citizenship: Zimbabwean Diaspora and Their Online Newspaper Reading Practices
  • - Mourning and Melancholia At The Harare International Festival of The Arts
    • Vol-6 No-2 (2014)
    • - Mdgs In Nigeria, Communication and The Media
  • - Using Public Service Broadcasting To Promote Development
  • - The Tension Between Ethics and Ethnicity: Examining Journalists’ Ethical Decision-Making At The Nation Media...
  • - Journalist In Africa: A High-Risk Profession Under Threat
  • - Forward With The People: A Linguistic Analysis of The Imagined Community In Letters To The Daily Sun
  • - The Representation of The Environmental Crises On Lake Victoria In Uganda’S Media: A Critical Analysis of The...
  • - Media and Elections In Africa – Conference Summary
    • Vol-6 No-3 (2014)
    • - ‘The World is Our Community’: Rethinking Community Radio In The Digital Age
  • - Linking Normative Theory To Media Policy-Making: A Case Study of Kenya
  • - Discussing The Igbo Language On The Igbo Internet Radio: Explicating Ethnolinguistic Vitality
  • - How Far Does Twitter Deepen Democracy Through Public Engagement?: An Analysis of Journalists’ Use of Twitter...
  • - Staging The Body and Space In Television: Jozi H As A Case In Point
  • - The Politics of ‘Patriots’ and ‘Traitors’ On Radio Zimbabwe
    • Vol-7 No-1 (2015)
    • - Across Media: Mobility and Transformation of Cultural Materials In The Digital Age
  • - ‘Peeling Back The Mask’: Remediation and Remix of Kenya’S News Into Popular Culture
  • - Remediations of Congolese Urban Dance Music In Kinshasa
  • - Targeting Urbanites: Nairobi-Bred Audio-Visual Narratives In Sheng
  • - Transnationalism and Transculturalism As Seen In Congolese Music Videograms
  • - ‘Underground’ Rap Performance, Informality and Cultural Production In Dar Es Salaam
  • - Media and Mobility In South African House Music
    • Vol-7 No-2 (2015)
    • - From Analogue To Digital Social Media In Africa
  • - Communicating War In Mali, 2012: On-offline Networked Political Agency In Times of Conflict
  • - Alternative Fabrics of Hegemony: City Squares and Street Graffiti As Sites of Resistance and Interactive...
  • - Social Media and The #Occupy Nigeria Protests: Igniting Or Damping A Harmattan Storm?
  • - Kenya Decides: Kiswahili, Social Media and Politics In Kenya’S 2013 General Elections
  • - Social Media Platforms of Reality Drama: A Study of Selected Facebook Accounts
  • - Reappraising Indigenous African Communication Systems In The Twenty-First Century: New Uses For Ancient Media
  • - La Belle At The Movies
  • - Finding A New Democratization Mission For African Universities
    • Vol-7 No-3 (2015)
    • - Screening Culture, Tweeting Politics1: Media Citizenship and The Politics of Representation On Sabc2
  • - Expanding Access and Participation Through A Combination of Community Radio and Mobile Phones: The Experience...
  • - Ethnic Differences Vs Nationhood In Times of National Crises: The Role of Social Media and Communication...
  • - Nollywood Online: Between The Individual Consumption and Communal Reception of Nigerian Films Among African...
  • - Griots, Satirical Columns, and The Micro-Public Sphere
  • - Examining The Contribution of Social Media In Reinforcing Political Participation In Zimbabwe
  • - Emergent African Digital Identities: The Story Behind ‘Africa is A Country’1
    • Vol-8 No-1 (2016)
    • - Modes of Griot Inscription In African Cinema
  • - State Interference, Para-Politics and Editorial Control: The Political Economy of ‘Mirrorgate’ In Zimbabwe
  • - Binary Opposites – Can South African Journalists Be Both Watchdogs and Developmental Journalists?
  • - Historical Entanglements, Conflicting Agendas and Visions: Radio Botswana and The Making of A National Radio...
  • - The Dialectics of Mobile Communication In South African Romantic Relationships
  • - Instagramming Africa

Journal of African Media Studies (JAMS)


General

Journal of African Media Studies (JAMS)

(JAMS) should be original and not under consideration by any other publication. JAMS welcomes empirical work that is well grounded in theoretical debates and academic literature and encourages contributors to include images, photographs or other graphics. Articles should be writ-ten in a clear and concise style and submitted by e-mail as a Word document. Please do not send WordPerfect files, Text files (i.e. with suffixes ‘.wpf’ or ‘txt’) or arti-cles pasted into an e-mail message. JAMS only accepts completed articles and is unable to advise on incomplete conference papers. All articles should be submitted to the Editor. Book/film reviews should be submitted to the Book Review Editor.


Language

JAMS uses standard British English (with – ize endings). The Editors reserve the right to alter usage to these ends.


Referees

JAMS is a refereed journal. Strict anonymity is accorded to both authors and referees. The latter are chosen for expertise within the subject area and are asked to comment on comprehensibility, originality and scholarly worth of article submitted.


Opinion

The views expressed in JAMS are those of the authors, and do not necessarily coincide with those of the Editor, Associate Editors, Editorial Board or Advisory Board.


Submission

  • Articles should not normally exceed 6,000 words in length. Book and film reviews should be no longer than 1,000 words;
  • Each article should include the following metadata:
  • exact title of the article;
  • author name and short affiliation (not to be confused with contributor details);
  • article abstract, maximum 150 words;
  • six keywords, or two-word phrases that indicate the core of what is discussed in the article;
  • references, i.e. a full list of the works cited in the article;
  • author biography, maximum of three sentences;
  • author institutional and e-mail addresses, for inclusion at the end of the article.
  • The metadata should be placed at the beginning of the article, with the exception of references, author biography and addresses, which should be placed at the end. 

Presentation

  • The title should be in bold at the beginning of the article, without inverted commas and written as an ordinary sentence (not all caps);
  • The text should be in Times New Roman, 12pt and double spaced;
  • Headings and sub-headings should be in bold;
  • Use italics for titles of books, films or newspapers etc., or for foreign names or phrases.


Quotations

  • Use single quotation marks (‘ ’) for terms and quoted phrases and sentences and double quotation marks (“ ”) for quotes within quotations;
  • Quotations longer than 40 words must be indented without quotation marks and in Times New Roman, 10pt;
  • In case of indented quotations, citation details should appear outside punctuation;
  • Omitted material in quotations should be signalled as follows: […].


References­ and­ Notes

  • Explanatory notes should be kept to an absolute minimum. Where they are essential, please use endnotes rather than footnotes. Endnotes should be created by authors instead of using the endnote system in Word;
  • The Harvard system should be used for references in the text in the following way: (Bourgault 1995); Kasoma (1997: 300); Tomaselli and Dunn (2001);
  • Web references in the text must have an author stated and Harvard style must be used;
  • Use ‘et al.’ when citing a work by more than two authors, e.g. Tomaselli et al. (1989);
  • The letters a, b, c etc. should be used to distinguish different citations by the same author in the same year, e.g. Nyamnjoh (2004a; 2004b);
  • Please do not use (ibid.) for consecutive references;
  • All references cited in the text should be listed alpha-betically and in full after the notes, using the follow-ing style:


Books

Bourgault, L. (1995), Mass Media in Sub-Saharan Africa,

Bloomington: Indiana University Press.


Articles­ in Edited Collections

Tomaselli, K. and Louw, E. (1991), ‘The South African progressive press under emergency, 1986–1989’, in

K. Tomaselli and E. Louw (eds), The Alternative Press in South Africa, London: James Currey, pp. 175–90.


Translated­ Books

Fanon, F. (1986), Black Skin, White Masks (trans. C. L. Markmann), London: Pluto Press.


Journal­ Articles

Kasoma, F. (1997), ‘The independent press and politics in Africa’, Gazette: International Journal for Communication Studies, 59: 4, pp. 295–310.


Anonymous­ Articles

Anon. (2002), ‘Paragons of press freedom?’, New African, 403, January, p. 22.


Conference­ Papers

Nyamnjoh, F. (2000), Africa and the Information Superhighway: the Need for Mitigated Euphoria, paper presented at the Highway Africa 2000 conference, Grahamstown, South Africa, 10–15 September 2000.


Newspaper Articles

Mulholland, H. (2006), ‘Journalists debate media reporting of developing world’, The Guardian, February 10, p. 10.


Reports

UNESCO (1980), Many Voices, One World, report by the International Commission for the Study of Communication Problems, Paris: UNESCO.


Theses and Dissertations

Saunders, R. (1991), Information in the Interregnum: the Press, State and Civil Society in Struggles for Hegemony, Zimbabwe 1980–1990, Ph.D. thesis, Carleton University.


Internet Sources

Shanmugavelan, M. (2004), ‘Mobile Africa must not leave its villages behind’, http://www.panos.org.uk/global/ featuredetails.asp?featureid=1187&ID=1002. Accessed 28 February 2006.


Tables ­and­ Graphics

  • Tables, graphs, photographs, images or other graphics should all be entitled ‘Figure’, numbered consecutively and accompanied by a caption as well as a source or copyright-holder acknowledgement;
  • Graphics should be sent separately, not embedded into the document. Please ensure that an indication is provided as to where the figures should be placed in the text;
  • Images should be in high resolution (300 dpi is the minimum resolution) and in the following formats: TIFF, JPEG, PSD, PDF. BMP images are not acceptable. It is the author’s responsibility to ensure that they are copyright cleared.

Book ­and ­Films­ Reviews

Please use the following style for film reviews:

Tsotsi, Directed by Gavin Hood (2005) UK/SA: Miramax Films

Please use the following style for book reviews:

Africa’s Media: Democracy and the Politics of Belonging, Francis B. Nyamnjoh (2005) London: Zed Books, 308 pp., ISBN: 1-84277-582-0 (hardback), £49.95, ISBN: 1-84277-583-9 (paperback), £15.95.


Winston Mano
Editor-in-Chief
Monica Chibita
Associate Editor
Wendy Willems
Associate Editor
Nkosi Martin Ndlela
Reviewer