Research Catalog

Title

Communication, culture, and human rights in Africa / edited by Bala A. Musa and Jerry Komia Domatob ; foreword by Cees J. Hamelink.

Publication

Lanham, [Md.] : University Press of America, c2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Musa, Bala A.
• Domatob, Jerry.
• Hamelink, Cees J., 1940-

Description

xvii, 275 p.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Communication, society, and change series ; v . 1

Uniform Title

Communication, society, and change series ; v. 1.

Subject

• Human rights > Africa
• Communication > Social aspects > Africa

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Dialogic communication theory, African worldview, and human rights / Bala A. Musa -- Political communication theory and human rights : a look at Nigeria's 2007 elections / Matt Mogekwu -- The media, culture, and human rights in Sub-Saharan Africa / Jerry Komia Domatob -- Reconciling a nation : Ghanaian journalists and the reporting of human rights / Jo Ellen Fair & Audrey Gadzekpo -- Media ethics and human rights education in post-conflict Africa / Bala A. Musa -- Media and freedom of expression in Africa : a comparative analysis of Sierra Leone and Zambia / Victor A. Massaquoi -- Restoring a nation's human rights image : look at Nigeria's political transition years / Amiso M. George -- Political repression and human rights abuses in Nigeria, 1999-2007 / Chris Ogbondah -- Media activism, youth culture, and human rights campaign for the MTV generation / Brian Ekdale -- "Ushahidi" and the Kenyan blogosphere : alternative online media in the 2007 post-election crisis in Kenya / Melissa Tully -- Gender and cultural violence in Africa : the ordeal of the Kuteb widow / Ibrahim M. Ahmadu & Bala A. Musa -- Gender, human rights, and leadership transition in pre-Islamic Hausaland / James B. Kantiok -- Culture, communication, and the right to education of the girl-child / James B. Kantiok -- Culture, health communication, and human rights in Africa / Marie N. Fongwa -- Health communication and HIV/AIDS patients' rights / Franklin Nii Yartey -- Communicating patients' rights in Kenyan hospitals : an analysis of nurse-client interactions / Benson Oduor Ojwang.

Call Number

Sc E 11-293

ISBN

• 9780761853077 (pbk.)
• 0761853073 (pbk.)

OCLC

650219935

Title

Communication, culture, and human rights in Africa / edited by Bala A. Musa and Jerry Komia Domatob ; foreword by Cees J. Hamelink.

Imprint

Lanham, [Md.] : University Press of America, c2011.

Series

Communication, society, and change series ; v . 1

Communication, society, and change series ; v. 1.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Musa, Bala A.

Domatob, Jerry.

Hamelink, Cees J., 1940-

Research Call Number

Sc E 11-293