{"product_id":"digital-communications-at-crossroads-in-africa-a-decolonial-approach-hardcover","title":"Digital Communications at Crossroads in Africa: A Decolonial Approach - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKehbuma Langmia\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eAgnes Lucy Lando\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDigital communication as it is practiced in Africa today is at a crossroad. This edited collection takes that crossroad as its starting point, as it both examines the complicated present and looks to the uncertain future of African communication systems. Contributing authors explore how western digital communication systems have proliferated in the African communication landscape, and argue that rich and long-cherished African forms of communal, in-person communication have been increasingly abandoned in favor of assimilation to western digital norms. As a result, future generations of Africans born on the continent and abroad may never recognize and appreciate African systems of communications.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAcknowledging that globalized digital communication systems are here to stay, the volume contends that in order to comprehend the past, present, and future of African communications, scholars need to decolonize their approach to teaching and consuming mediated and in-person communications on the African continent and abroad. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Once again the creative communication scholar, Kehbuma Langmia, has brought us a volume that expands the boundaries of the field of communication. This is sure to be a major force in the field.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--\u003cb\u003eMolefi Kete Asante\u003c\/b\u003e, Professor and Chair, Department of Africology, Temple University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Africa has always been marginalized in history and other social sciences, until now. Here is a text that will open the minds of scholars and learners around the world about the origins of digital communication. I encourage everyone, especially media instructors, scholars, and students of digital media and global communication to read \u003ci\u003eDigital Communications at Crossroads in Africa: A Decolonial Approach\u003c\/i\u003e.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--\u003cb\u003e(Prof.) Emmanuel K. Ngwainmbi\u003c\/b\u003e, Volume Editor, \u003ci\u003eMedia in the Global Context: Applications and Interventions\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDigital communication as it is practiced in Africa today is at a crossroad. This edited collection takes that crossroad as its starting point, as it both examines the complicated present and looks to the uncertain future of African communication systems. Contributing authors explore how western digital communication systems have proliferated in the African communication landscape, and argue that rich and long-cherished African forms of communal, in-person communication have been increasingly abandoned in favor of assimilation to western digital norms. 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Since earning his PhD in Mass Communications and Media Studies from Howard University in 2006, he has over 22 publications in the form of books, book chapters and research articles in prominent national and international journals.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAgnes Lucy Lando\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Daystar University, Kenya. She obtained her PhD in Social Communication from The Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, in 2008. In October 2016, Lando became the first African elected Board Member-at-Large of International Communication Association (ICA). Lando has publications in Communication Ethics, Higher Education in Africa, The Critical Role of Crisis Communication Plan in Corporations' Crises Preparedness, Communication Theory, Rumours on Social Media; and Kenya's subtle 2013 Post-Election Violence. She is 2013 George Gerbner Excellence Award recipient. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContributors: \u003cb\u003eKajsa Hallberg Adu\u003c\/b\u003e, Nordic Africa Institute, Sweden\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eShamilla Amulega\u003c\/b\u003e, Howard University, USA \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eM'Bawine Atintande\u003c\/b\u003e, University of Ghana, Ghana \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eLaban P. Ayiro\u003c\/b\u003e, Daystar University, Kenya \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbdul Karim Bangura\u003c\/b\u003e, American University, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMohamed Saliou Camara\u003c\/b\u003e, Howard University, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBala A. 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