Human Rights and African Airwaves : Mediating Equality on the Chichewa Radio /

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Human Rights and African Airwaves focuses on Nkhani Zam'maboma, a popular Chichewa news bulletin broadcast on Malawi's public radio. The program often takes authorities to task and questions much of the human rights rhetoric that comes from international organizations. Highlighting obligat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Englund, Harri
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Malawi Broadcasting Corporation.
Nkhani Zam'maboma (Radio program)
Menschenrecht
Hörfunk
Social conditions
Radio broadcasting > Social aspects.
Radio broadcasting, Chewa.
Public radio.
Human rights in mass media.
Ethnology.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Economy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Media Studies.
Ethnologie > Malawi.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international) dans les medias.
Radio publique > Malawi.
Radio > Aspect social > Malawi.
Ethnology > Malawi.
Public radio > Malawi.
Radio broadcasting, Chewa > Malawi.
Radio broadcasting > Social aspects > Malawi.
Malawi
Malawi.
Malawi > Conditions sociales.
Malawi > Social conditions.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Human Rights and African Airwaves focuses on Nkhani Zam'maboma, a popular Chichewa news bulletin broadcast on Malawi's public radio. The program often takes authorities to task and questions much of the human rights rhetoric that comes from international organizations. Highlighting obligation and mutual dependence, the program expresses, in popular idioms and local narrative forms, grievances and injustices that are closest to Malawi's impoverished public. Harri Englund reveals broadcasters' everyday stru.
Physical Description:1 online resource (308 pages).
ISBN:9780253005434

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