Private Print Media, the State and Politics in Colonial and Post-Colonial Zimbabwe

• Main Author: Dombo, Sylvester (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Journalism.; Ethnology-Africa.; Communication.; Africa-Politics and government.; African Culture.; Development Communication.; African Politics.; Media and Communication.

This book examines the role played by two popular private newspapers in the struggle for democracy in Zimbabwe, one case from colonial Rhodesia and the other from the post-colonial era. It argues that, operating under oppressive political regimes and in the dearth of credible opposition political pa...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Colonialism and the Development of the Press in Zimbabwe
• 3. African Newspapers and the Development of the Private Press in Rhodesia
• 4. African Daily News and Early-African Politics in Rhodesia
• 5. 'We are at a political crossroad': Press and Politics in Rhodesia, 1958-1964
• 6. Press and Politics in Independent Zimbabwe to 1999
• 7. 'Telling It like It Is?': the Daily News and Zimbabwean Political Crisis to 2000
• 8. 'Uneasy Bedfellows': The Daily News and The State 1999-2003
• 9. Predictable and Unavoidable: the Closure of the African Daily News and Daily News
• 10. The Rise of the Alternative Media
• 11. Press and Politics in Zimbabwe: Concluding Remarks.