Human Rights and African Airwaves by Harri Englund
Human Rights and African Airwaves focuses on a popular Chichewa news bulletin, Nkhani Zam’maboma, broadcast on Malawi’s public radio.
Highlighting obligation and mutual dependence, the programme expresses grievances and injustices that are closest to Malawi’s impoverished public in popular idioms and local narrative forms. The book argues that the most effective claims against injustices are not necessarily voiced by human rights activists.
Harri Englund reveals broadcasters’ everyday struggles against state-sponsored biases and a listening public with strong views and a critical ear. This original look at African-language media makes available fresh intellectual resources to envisage equality in an unequal world.
Published by Indiana University Press