Foreword

Beverly Hawk

Introduction: a new Africa’s Media Image?

Mel Bunce, Suzanne Franks and Chris Paterson

PART I: Framing Africa

1. The international news coverage of Africa: beyond the "single story"

Mel Bunce

2. Media perspectives: in defence of Western journalists in Africa

Michela Wrong

3. Reporting and writing Africa in a world of unequal encounters

Francis B. Nyamnjoh

4. Media perspectives: how does Africa get reported? A letter of concern to 60 Minutes

Howard W. French

5. How not to write about writing about Africa

Martin Scott

6 Bringing Africa home. reflections on discursive practices of domestication in international news reporting on Africa by Belgian television

Stijn Joye

7. The image of Africa from the perspectives of the African diasporic press in the UK.

Olatunji Ogunyemi

PART II: The image makers

8. Mediating the distant Other for the distant audience: how do Western correspondents in East and Southern Africa perceive their audience?

Toussaint Nothias

9. Media perspectives: television reporting of Africa: 30 years on

Zeinab Badawi

10. Foreign correspondents in sub-Saharan Africa: their socio-demographics and professional culture

Paulo Nuno Vicente

11. Media perspectives: reflecting on my father’s legacy in reporting Africa

Salim Amin

12. Media perspectives: we’re missing the story: the media’s retreat from foreign reporting

Anjan Sundaram

13. Instagram as a potential platform for alternative Visual Culture in South Africa

Danielle Becker

14. Media perspectives: social media and new narratives: Kenyans tweet back

H. Nanjala Nyabola

15. A "New Ghana" in "Rising Africa"?

Rachel Flamenbaum

PART III: Development and humanitarian stories

16. Media perspectives: is Africa’s development story still stuck on aid?

Eliza Anyangwe

17. AIDS in Africa and the British media: shifting images of a pandemic

Ludek Stavinoha

18. Media perspectives: a means to an end? Creating a market for humanitarian news from Africa

Heba Aly

19. It was a "simple", "positive" story of African self-help (manufactured for a Kenyan NGO by advertising multinationals)

Kate Wright

20. Media perspectives: Africa for Norway: challenging stereotypes using humour

Nicklas Poulsen Viki

21. Bloggers, celebrities, and economists: news coverage of the Millennium Villages Project

Audrey Ariss, Anya Schiffrin and Michelle Chahine

PART IV: Politics in the representation of Africa

22. Africa through Chinese eyes: new frames or the same old lens? African news in English from China Central Television, compared with the BBC

Vivien Marsh

23. Media perspectives: new media and African engagement with the global public sphere

Sean Jacobs

24. Shifting power relations, shifting images

Herman Wasserman

25. Communicating violence: the media strategies of Boko Haram

Abdullahi Tasiu Abubakar

26. Perceptions of Chinese media's Africa coverage

James Wan

27. New imperialisms, old stereotypes

Chris Paterson

28. Nollywood news: African screen media at the intersections of the global and the local

Noah Tsika

Index