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- W2240634366 abstract "In How to Write about Africa Binyavanga Wainaina sums up the default view with which Africa is portrayed, especially through a Euro-American mediascape as: Always use the word 'Africa' or 'Darkness' or 'Safari' in your title. Subtitles may include the words 'Zanzibar', 'Masai', 'Zulu', 'Zambezi', 'Congo', 'Nile', 'Big', 'Sky', 'Shadow', 'Drum'... Also useful are words such as 'Guerrillas', 'Timeless', 'Primordial' and 'Tribal'. Note that 'People' means Africans who are not black, while 'The People' means black Africans This voice captures the default narrative that continue to define what Africa means to a Euro-American mediated reality. But while this narrative has prevailed in the past thanks to the single-story nature of Western media that sourced, created, controlled and perpetuated it in almost all world media, this stereotype is today being challenged. (African) people who were formerly passive characters and unwitting consumers of their narratives as produced for them by Western media, are learning to challenge them. They are claiming some role of prosumers in the a new mediasacape made possible by liberalization and globalization of the means of producing, disseminating and consuming information. This paper examines how this contest played during the 2013 presidential election in Kenya. While Western media continued to hunt for the narrative of violence, social disintegration and tribal disharmony through the lenses of the contested election of 2007-2008, Kenyans were determined to tell their story this time round, through their new role of prosumers. This paper critiques this David-vs-Goliath-like contest in the context of the role of new media and its impact in re-engineering Africans to reshape the story of the African problem." @default.
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- W2240634366 date "2013-01-01" @default.
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- W2240634366 title "Foreign Reporters Armed to Attack Kenya: 2013 Election as Contestation Space between Western and Local Mediascapes of the 'African Problem'" @default.
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