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On community radio and African interest broadcasting
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Tyali, Siyasanga M. |
| Copyright Year | 2021 |
| Description | Book Name: Routledge Handbook of African Media and Communication Studies |
| Abstract | A large body of research and theoretical outputs has been generated from the community radio sector of South Africa (Berger 1996; Teer-Tomaselli 2001; Bosch 2003; Tyali and Tomaselli 2015). Such outputs have focused on multiple themes, including the health communication role of the industry, its history and development as well as the democratic role of such a broadcasting sector within the country. Using a case study approach, the focus of this chapter is on theorising the decolonisation role of the community radio sector by understanding its cultural “liberatory” role in relation to the history and memory of a particularised African community. Fanon (1961, 51) in his attempts to make sense of the continuing legacy of colonialism on “postcolonial” societies suggests that “because of the various means whereby decolonisation has been carried out have appeared in many different aspects, reason hesitates and refuses to say which is a true decolonization, and which is a false”. Though this is acknowledged, scholars such as Tuck and Yang (2012, 13) have however argued that “decolonisation specifically requires the repatriation of indigenous land and life”. In dealing with the existence of coloniality or none thereof in “postcolonial” societies, Castro-Go´mez (2007, 428) ponders “do we live in a world where the old epistemological hierarchies made rigid by modern colonialism have disappeared, or on the contrary, are we witnessing a postmodern reorganization of coloniality?” Should it be that coloniality is acknowledged in such societies, thus decolonisation and repatriation of indigenous life is an antidote to such coloniality. Repatriation of such life requires communities to not only decolonise the current moment, but to mainly understand how the current moment is connected to history and memory. Thus, the dominant question that underpins the chapter is: how does a community radio such as Vukani Community Radio (VCR) (as a case study) adapt its broadcasting content to suit the everyday need of the African community it serves? Through this central question, I further aim to understand the manifestation of African memory on the airwaves of a media institution and how this speaks to the question of the making and the re-making of “previously” colonised “spaces” into African interest-driven spaces. |
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| Ending Page | 204 |
| Page Count | 13 |
| Starting Page | 192 |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781351273206-14 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2021-01-23 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: Routledge Handbook of African Media and Communication Studies Cultural Studies Health Communication History and Memory African Community African Interest |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
