ID - 131904318 TI - Politics and Journalism in Francophone Africa : Systems, Practices and Identities PY - 2022 SN - 9783030993993 9783030993986 9783030994006 9783030994013 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - International relations. Foreign policy KW - Politics KW - Economics KW - Mass communications KW - Afrikaans KW - communicatie KW - politiek KW - North Africa KW - Africa KW - Communication in politics. KW - Regionalism. KW - African Politics. KW - Political Communication. KW - Politics and government. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:131904318 AB - This book provides a comprehensive approach of the media, journalism and politics in Sub-Saharan Francophone Africa. The author argues that there are common features that the media and journalism share in the seventeen countries of Francophone Africa and these make the local media systems different from what they are in neighboring English-speaking African countries, and in the rest of the world. The approach of the media in French-speaking Africa has not only to be “de-Westernized”, but also to step out of general overviews considering “African media." This project shows the historical, political, economic and sociological characteristics of the media systems of seventeen French-speaking countries of Africa. Marie-Soleil Frere was Professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles and Director of Research at the National Fund for Scientific Research, Brussels. She passed away on March 2021. ER -