Popular Communication, Volume 9, Issue 2 (2011)

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Media in Africa

Guest Editor's Introduction

Editorial
Guest Editor's Introduction
Sean Jacobs
Pages: 63-66
Published online: 02 May 2011
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Nollywood, Globalization, and Regional Media Corporations in Africa
Moradewun Adejunmobi
Pages: 67-78
Published online: 02 May 2011
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Impenetrable Bodies/Disappearing Bodies: Fat American Celebrities, Lean Indigenous People, and Multinational Pharmaceuticals in the Battle to Claim Hoodia gordonii
M. Neelika Jayawardane
Pages: 79-98
Published online: 02 May 2011
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Mobility Through Piracy, or How Steven Seagal Got to Malawi
Jonathan Gray
Pages: 99-113
Published online: 02 May 2011
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Taboos and Rebels—Or, Transgression and Regulation in the Work and Lives of Kinshasa's Television Journalists
Katrien Pype
Pages: 114-125
Published online: 02 May 2011
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Comic Strips and “the Crisis”: Postcolonial Laughter and Coping With Everyday Life in Zimbabwe
Wendy Willems
Pages: 126-145
Published online: 02 May 2011
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Mobile Phones, Popular Media, and Everyday African Democracy: Transmissions and Transgressions
Herman Wasserman
Pages: 146-158
Published online: 02 May 2011
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Book Review

Book Review
Less Walk More Talk: How Celtel and the Mobile Phone Changed Africa, by Russell Southwood
SMS Uprising: Mobile Activism in Africa, edited by Sokari Ekine
Mobile Phones: The New Talking Drums of Everyday Africa, edited by Mirjam de Bruijn, Francis Nyamnjoh, and Inge Brinkman
Chichester, England: John Wiley and Sons Press, 2008, ISBN 9780470743201, 236 pages, $29.95 (paper). Cape Town, South Africa: Pambazuka Press, 2010, ISBN 9781906387358, 174 pages, $20.95 (paper). Cameroon, Africa: Langaa Group, 2009, ISBN 9789956558537, 184 pages, $29.95 (paper).
Paddy Scannell
Pages: 159-163
Published online: 02 May 2011
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