The British Press, Public Opinion and the End of Empire in Africa: The 'Wind of Change', 1957-60

ISBN-13: 9783030894559 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 304 str.

Rosalind Coffey

Spis treści

Chapter One: Introduction

Chapter Two: Nkrumah’s Ghana, 1957: the press and the post-colonial state.

Chapter Three: Colonial violence in Kenya and the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, 1959: frameworks of representation and patterns of practice of the press

Chapter Four: Harold Macmillan’s ‘wind of change’ tour of Africa, 1960: British policy, civic cultures and political practices

Chapter Five: The Sharpeville massacre, 1960: African activism and the press

Chapter Six: The Congo Crisis, 1960-61: emergent mini-frames in a post-colonial environment.

Chapter Seven: Conclusion.

O autorze

Rosalind Coffey is a Guest Teacher in the Department of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where she teaches on the extra-European world during the twentieth century. She has also worked as a Senior Teaching Fellow in the History Department at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), where she convened courses on the history of Africa from the birth of civilisations to the present day, society and culture in twentieth-century Africa, slavery in West Africa, and gender.  She has also taught an interdisciplinary course at the LSE, which encourages the cross-fertilisation of approaches and perspectives across fields including History, Government, Development, and Media and Communications.