In Defence of Press Freedom in Africa: An Essay (Record no. 11572)

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International Standard Book Number 9789956762064.
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Personal name Tatah Mentan.
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Title In Defence of Press Freedom in Africa: An Essay
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Langaa RPCIG:
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2015-08-06
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Extent 94 p.
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General note When Africa stumbled into independence in the 1960s, the blossoming of newspapers of nearly every political persuasion was widely hailed as a critical stepping stone toward true multiparty democracy. However, rather than marking a clean break with an authoritarian past, the era of multiparty politics in Africa has been a time of increased hardship and repression for journalists who dare criticize powerful incumbents. Media repression continues to rise. After decades of retreat, authoritarian regimes are using social media and other sophisticated systems in a new era of repression to thwart democracy and trample human rights. For consecutive decades, the state of freedom has declined, more people in more places face more repression. While systemic torture in war-torn Somalia and the return of a military dictatorship in Egypt captured headlines, there is also widespread, insidious and 21st-century style surveillance elsewhere with abuse or imprisonment or both of political activists. For the media to play its role as priests of democracy, Tatah Mentan maintains that media freedom must be rigorously defended as integral to the democratic way of life.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Press Freedom
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Africa
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Media
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Mass Commuunication
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15.01.2026   Online https://koha.baobab-ebooks.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=221437 15.01.2026 Electronic Books   Library of Congress Classification       Institute of Journalism - Dzorwulu Campus Institute of Journalism - Dzorwulu Campus 15.01.2026