Press Silence in Postcolonial Zimbabwe: News Whiteouts, Journalism and Power

ISBN-13: 9781032237893 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 314 str.

Zvenyika Eckson Mugari

Opis

This book focuses on news silence in Zimbabwe, taking as a point of departure the (in)famous blank spaces (whiteouts) which newspapers published to protest official censorship policy imposed by the Rhodesian government from the mid-1960s to the end of that decade.

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Colonial Foundations of Press Silence in Zimbabwe  Chapter 2. Colonial Press and Intersecting Loci of Silencing  Chapter 3. News Whiteouts Under Udi and After  Chapter 4. News Silence on Forced Removals Colonial Rhodesia  Chaper 5. The Daily News And ‘Telling the Land Story Like It Is’  Chapter 6. The Herald and Patriotic News on The Land Issue  Chapter 7. Operation Restore (Colonial) Order  Chapter 8. ‘Operation Restore Legacy’ In Post-Mugabe Era  Chapter 9. Do-It-Yourself (DIY) News and The Emancipatory Promise

O autorze

Zvenyika Eckson Mugari is Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Lecturer in the Media and Society Studies Department at the Midlands State University, Zimbabwe. He also holds a Research Fellowship with the Centre for Diversity Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.