Original citation:Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo J. and Willems, Wendy (2009) 'independence,' 'heroes' and 'unity' in
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This article examines the range of cultural events and activities promoted by the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) in the 2000s under the banner of the Third Chimurenga. It contributes to the lively debate on post-2000 cultural imaginings of a fetishised nation riddled by contestations over state power. The article posits that the version of 'cultural' nationalism promoted as part of the Third Chimurenga emerged partly as a political response to the failures of 'developmental' nationalism of the 1980s and 1990s and partly as a continuation and intensification of the previous imaginings of Zimbabwe that began in the 1960s. Through a range of cultural activities, the ruling party sought to legitimise its continued rule of Zimbabwe in the face of the challenges posed to its rule by the increasingly popular Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) and the growing number of civil society organisations. Through the specific genre of the 'music gala', cultural nationalism came to attribute new meanings to concepts such as
Original citation:Willems, Wendy (2013) Participation -in what? Radio, convergence and the corporate logic of audience input through new media in Zambia. Telematics and Informatics, 30 (3
In the late 1990s and 2000s, a number of calls were made by scholars to “internationalize” or “dewesternize” the field of media and communication studies. I argue that these approaches have indirectly silenced a much longer disciplinary history outside “the West” that has not only produced empirical knowledge but has also actively challenged Western epistemologies. This article seeks to reinscribe the epistemological and historical foundations of media and communication studies in Africa. By framing the research of African media and communication scholars within the changing nature of knowledge production, shifting power relations between African nations, and the evolving role of African universities, I demonstrate how academic knowledge production is frequently driven and constrained by particular dominant social, political, and economic interests.
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