Chapter 1: ‘Defence-less Defenders’: Mapping Harassment in African Journalism

Section 1: Harassment of Female Journalists

Chapter 2: “There Were no Repercussions, Nothing, Life Continued”: Experiences of Harassment by Female Journalists’

Chapter 3: Being a Woman-Journalist in a Polarised Context in Mozambique: A Forgotten Issue? Chapter 4: Emergent Forms and Patterns of Online Harassment of Women Journalists in African countries: A Scoping Review

Chapter 5: Gendered Threats and Attacks In and Outside the Newsroom: Nigerian Female Journalists’ Experiences with Harassment

Chapter 6: Digital Surveillance, Online and Offline Harassment and Feminist Media Politics

Section 2: Online Harassment of Journalists and the Pitfalls for Democracy

Chapter 7: Independent Online Journalists’ Harassment and the Emotional Repercussions: A Case of Selected Zimbabwean Journalists

Chapter 8: Journalists’ Repression, Harassment and Attacks in Eswatini and Botswana

Chapter 9: Harassment and Threats Faced by Journalists in Kenya: Implications for Press Freedom and Independent Reporting

Chapter 10: The Cost of Dissent in a Governance System Characterized by ‘Political Marketplace’: A Phenomenological Study of Independent Journalists in Ethiopia

Chapter 11: Outsourcing Repression: Impunity and Harassment of Journalists in Malawi

Section 3: Journalists Safety and Coping Mechanisms

Chapter 12: Coping into Self-Censorship: Exploring coping strategies of journalists working in South Sudan

Chapter 13: Safety of journalists during elections coverage in Zimbabwe

Chapter 14: Time to Act: Measures of Curbing Harassment of Journalists in African Newsrooms