In defence of press freedom in Africa : an essay / Tatah Mentan.
Material type: TextPublisher number: MWT11583101Publication details: Mankon, Cameroon : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, [2015]; [Oxford, England] : Distributed in and outside N. America by African Books Collective.Description: 1 online resource (1 PDF (xxxvi, 57 pages))Content type:- text
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- 9789956762064
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- Government and the press -- Africa
- Censorship -- Africa
- Press and politics -- Africa
- Freedom of the press -- Africa
- État et presse -- Afrique
- Liberté de la presse -- Afrique
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights
- Censorship
- Freedom of the press
- Government and the press
- Press and politics
- Africa
- 323.44/5 23
- PN4748.A35 M465 2015
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Includes bibliographical references (page 57).
Foreword -- Preface -- Principles of journalism -- African political systems -- Propaganda and censorship -- A statement of concern -- 1. The media context -- 2. Why does freedom of the press matter? -- 3. Patterns of repression -- 4. Whose failures? -- 5. Conclusion : press censorship and social equilibrium -- Appendix. My final statement of shared purpose.
When Africa stumbled into independence in the 1960s, the blossoming of newspapers of nearly every political persuasion was widely hailed as a critical stepping stone toward true multiparty democracy. However, rather than marking a clean break with an authoritarian past, the era of multiparty politics in Africa has been a time of increased hardship and repression for journalists who dare criticize powerful incumbents. Media repression continues to rise. After decades of retreat, authoritarian regimes are using social media and other sophisticated systems in a new era of repression to thwart democracy and trample human rights. For consecutive decades, the state of freedom has declined - more people in more places face more repression. While systemic torture in war-torn Somalia and the return of a military dictatorship in Egypt captured headlines, there is also widespread, insidious and 21st-century style surveillance elsewhere with abuse or imprisonment or both of political activists. For the media to play its role as priests of democracy, Tatah Mentan maintains that media freedom must be rigorously defended as integral to the democratic way of life.
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