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      Reform or re‐colonisation? the overhaul of African television

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            The African television broadcasting sector is undergoing a rapid and long awaited process of liberalisation. This article examines key aspects of that process with geographic focus on sub‐Saharan Africa. Specifically addressed are what has recently changed, and more crucially, not changed, in the politically charged arena of television newscasting. Throughout the continent broadcasters, whether privately or publicly financed, are finding a wide variety of creative solutions to technological and economic challenges as they rush to cultivate an audience among the urban middle class. But the rapid shift from public to frequently foreign private ownership of television may be symptomatic of a broader re‐colonisation of Africa by US and European multinationals that has been euphemistically heralded as Africa's Renaissance.

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            crea20
            CREA
            Review of African Political Economy
            Review of African Political Economy
            0305-6244
            1740-1720
            December 1998
            : 25
            : 78
            : 571-583
            Affiliations
            a Centre for Communication Research , University of Leicester , UK
            Article
            8704344 Review of African Political Economy, Vol. 25, No. 78, December 1998, pp. 571-583
            10.1080/03056249808704344
            bf83362c-53e3-45fc-ba89-f896e6e89968

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            Sociology,Economic development,Political science,Labor & Demographic economics,Political economics,Africa

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