Media Reforms and Democratization in Emerging Democracies of Sub-Saharan Africa

• Main Author: Akpojivi, Ufuoma (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: Communication.; Ethnology-Africa.; Mass media-Political aspects.; Africa-Politics and government.; Development Communication.; African Culture.; Media Policy.; African Politics.; Media and Communication.

This book examines the media reform processes and re-democratization projects of Ghana and Nigeria's emerging democracies. It evaluates and critiques these reform processes, arguing that because of dependency approaches resulting from the transplanting of policy framework from the West into the...